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  • Imprisoned for life - and at the mercy of COVID-19 (The Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 15, 2020)
  • Following the North Star (Long Reads, May 1, 2020)
  • Why we need more journalism courses taught in prison (Nieman Reports, Aug. 9, 2018)
  • Lessons learned inside prison ... and an unexpected death (Medium, Nov. 30, 2017)
  • Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News by William J. Drummond (University of California Press, Jan 2020)

Media Coverage

  • San Quentin's breakthrough prison newsroom (Politico, June 25, 2020)
  • Prison Journalism Project finding voices from behind prison walls (Penn State News, March 18, 2020)
  • WPSU's Take Note: Shaheen Pasha On Teaching Journalism in Prisons (WPSU, Feb. 7, 2020)
  • Advisor Bill Drummond discusses his new book on how an inmate-run newspaper changed San Quentin (Columbia Magazine, Jan. 23, 2020)
  • Academic Advisor Raz Sibii discussed the need for more credit-bearing college classes in prison in his latest column (The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Jan. 20, 2020)
  • Yukari talks about why journalism from inside the wall matters (Al Jazeera, Nov. 2, 2019)
  • Shaheen and PJP advisor Razvan Sibii were interviewed about journalism behind bars (IRE Radio, Nov. 19, 2018)
  • Professor Shaheen Pasha rethinks her views about life behind bars (San Quentin News, Dec. 29, 2018)
  • Shaheen was interviewed on prison journalism (WGBY, Sept. 26, 2018)
  • Yukari talks about teaching journalism at San Quentin (Grottopod Podcast, May 2017)

In the News

Work by the Students

  • Joe Garcia
    Inside San Quentin prison, you sit and wait until covid-19 comes for you (Washington Post, July 2020)
     
  • Joe Garcia
    America’s love affair with guns creates killers. I know – I’m one of them. (Sacramento Bee, June 24, 2019)
     
  • Kent Mitchell (Na’im Khaliq)
    Loving my Autistic Son (Medium, Jan. 16, 2019)
     
  • Jesse Vasquez
    One Prison Taught Me Racism. Another Taught Me Acceptance (Washington Post, Oct. 1, 2018)
     
  • Dakota Micks (Na’im Masuud Rahim)
    My Journey from Heroin to Prison (The Fix, Nov. 27, 2018)
     
  • Dakota Micks (Na’im Masuud Rahim)
    Tears in a Halfway House (Medium, Jan 16, 2019)

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  • Racial Tensions in Prisons (PRI The World, Oct. 2, 2018)
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