The ''San Quentin News'' is a non-profit, monthly prison newspaper written and edited by inmates at

San Quentin State Prison San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County. Opened in July 1852, San Quentin is the ...

in California and published by the Pollen Initiative.

History

The ''San Quentin News'' was founded in 1940 by Clinton Duffy, the then warden of San Quentin State Prison, as an inmate-edited newspaper. The newspaper had a spotty publication record until completely closing in the 1990s. It was reestablished in 2008 by warden Robert Ayers, Jr. and, as of 2014, had a print circulation of 11,500. By 2022 this had grown to a circulation of 35,000, with copies of the newspaper distributed to inmates at 36 California state prisons and some jails. San_Quentin_State_Prison

The ''San Quentin News'' is published by the Pollen Initiative.

Content

The ''San Quentin News'' covers local sports, prison entertainment, and correctional policies. All content published by the newspaper is subject to pre-publication review by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and, in 2014, the publication was suspended for more than a month after newspaper staff substituted an approved photograph with an unapproved photograph. The ''San Quentin News'' is a member outlet of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

References

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External links

Interview with Steve McNamara on the San Quentin News for the "Ralph Nader Story Hour"

"Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News" by William J. Drummond
Nonprofit newspapers San Quentin State Prison