My first piece with Traveler Magazine...thx to Condé Nast and Lale and Prison Journalism Project cntraveler.com/story/after-pr…

Big things are happening at Pollen Initiative. Last month, we launched a media center at the Central California Women’s Facility. More new newsrooms and news publications are on the horizon! For this and more, I am so excited to come on board as their new editorial director ✨✨

Join us for an informative discussion about the First Amendment in prisons. Former editor in chief Jesse Vasquez will be a part of this important conversation along with Eastern State Penitentiary easternstate.org/visit/events/j…

A must read. California Governor budget will spend $132,860 to incarcerate someone in prison for a year. That money should be spent on housing, jobs & education. Opinion: California has a $38-billion deficit. So why are we still paying for prisons we don't need? latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Worth checking out in advance of the IALJS annual conference in Sydney this May 😎

Few writers can capture the unexpected and surprising parts of prison life like Jeffrey McKee—this time about how he came to keep and care for a rogue houseplant in his cell. The plant's name is Groot. I love it.

This should be a really interesting panel, on the exercise of free press and free association in prison 👇

This First Amendment conversation with former editor in chief Jesse Vasquez will be an informative one about the press in prison and freedom of association in the California prison system: easternstate.org/visit/events/j…

Published this week: a fascinating Prison Journalism Project reentry story from Joshua Richards, a participant in a writing workshop I did for Education Justice Project. Looking forward to seeing more articles being published out of this great college in prison program!

prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/01/28/ree…

“This paper has been my sanity, and my “thing” since I’ve been a San Quentin.”

From J. Pence Wagner’s farewell column as editor of San Quentin News, published July 30, 1971.

Interesting piece of prison journalism history dug up from the The San Quentin News archives ✨

In case you missed the Alta Journal Live event yesterday... it now lives online! The San Quentin News/ Pollen Initiative ED Jesse Vasquez and I chat about prison journalism and the CA parole process with Alta's fabulous digital editor Beth Spotswood!
altaonline.com/events/a464284…

Please come, y'all!

This is a great opportunity to hear from people making journalism happen from inside prison. Looking forward to sharing a Zoom stage with Joe Garcia and Jesse Vasquez of Pollen Initiative and The San Quentin News WallCity Magazine

Excited for this event! If you are in Oakland this Wednesday, please come! I'll be reading from my latest piece written with my buddy Joe Garcia.

Learn more about an online archive that makes news by and for the incarcerated more accessible to outside audiences and researchers. #SQNews

In this editorial from 1971 the editor of San Quentin News shares what the 'News' meant to him. Writing for the incarcerated is much more than just storytelling. It can be a lifeline issuu.com/polleninitiati…

Thank you Prison Policy Init. for delving deep into this system.
These numbers deserve a second look: 75 people granted parole out of 3000 hearings!
prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/12/1…
This gives great context to Kate McQueen piece in Alta Journal