Tag Archives: prison

Contra Costa homeless shelters unsure about effects of realignment

By: Hasan Dudar | October 3, 2011 – 9:05 am

As the state starts to release prisoners into the supervision of the counties, Contra Costa County’s homeless shelters – where former prisoners often end up...

Local children growing up without parents

By: Robert Rogers | August 19, 2010 – 7:37 am

Like thousands of children in Richmond, 12-year-old Jaquan Smith has lost a parent to crime and imprisonment. The boy lives with family friends in Parchester...

Prison University at San Quentin Prison

By: Elizabeth Peirce, Guilherme Kfouri, Armand Emamdjomeh, Helene Goupil, Robert Rogers | August 11, 2010 – 5:00 am

An innovative and in many ways unique educational program is flourishing on the other side of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, in an institution through which...

Prison’s revolving door

By: Robert Rogers | August 9, 2010 – 2:08 pm

Three months after being imprisoned for missing parole appointments and failing drug tests, a corrections bus scooped him up from San Quentin State Prison and...

‘Redemptive’ reception for outreach in North Richmond

By: Robert Rogers | April 28, 2010 – 9:18 am

It’s a neighborhood that has absorbed hard knocks over the years, but at a community-building block party in North Richmond on Saturday the vibe was...