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Chanthon Bun caught the coronavirus at San Quentin Prison during one of the worst outbreaks in the country. On top of the usual challenges people face when they parole, Bun had to deal with COVID recovery, survivor's guilt, and the fear that ICE would put him back in a different kind of prison.
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Across the United States, incarcerated people often separate themselves by race or ethnicity. Blacks hang with blacks, whites with whites, and so forth. But at San Quentin, people of all races participate in playing in a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons.
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Being approved for parole doesn’t mean someone gets to go straight home — there’s a catch.
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ROOTS — or Restoring Our Original True Selves — is a restorative justice program that helps Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at San Quentin Prison address that intergenerational trauma.
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With San Quentin has dozens of self-help programs for inmates. But one man foregoes them all, creating his own form of therapy through feeding birds.
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Getting a haircut can make a person feel good. For the men in San Quentin, it's no different.
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Many people are living their lives without realizing they have autism. This includes people in incarceration.
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State of the Bay
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Our friends in the San Quentin Media center — where San Quentin Radio, Ear Hustle, and other programs are produced — shared with us some songs of the…
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Holidays can bring about complicated feelings for many incarcerated people. There's no work or school at that time, so the men are given leisure time to relax, maybe watch TV, and some receive visits from family on Christmas day. But for others it's a painful reminder that they’re not able to spend time with those they love most. Reporter Louis A. Scott talked with several members of San Quentin Media to see how they celebrated or avoided Christmas.
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More than two-thirds of the inmates in California's state prisons are Latino or African American, according to the most recent census. More than 1,000…
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Throughout the prison system men are dying from incurable diseases. Sometimes these inmates are granted freedom through a program called Compassionate…