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Bay View editor may take legal action against private prison company

Tim Redmond - January 17, 2021

Keith Malik Washington charges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Geo Group retaliated after he contacted a reporter about a COVID outbreak in a halfway house.

COVID

COVID outbreak — and media crackdown — at private halfway house in Tenderloin

Tim Redmond - January 11, 2021

Center run by private prison contractor on lockdown, and resident punished for contacting the news media about it.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: New year brings films challenging us to rethink the status quo

Dennis Harvey - January 4, 2021

Forced sterilizations in California prisons, disastrous Venezuelan coastal pollution, and adults who live with facial disfigurement are the subject of 2021's first releases.

COVID

Give prisoners the vaccine

Marc Norton - December 24, 2020

Prisons and jails are COVID super-spreaders -- and that makes all of us less safe.

Movies

Son’s dedication fuels doc on Black liberation group MOVE

Pam Grady - December 9, 2020

'40 Years a Prisoner' examines police stand-off that left nine activists facing life—and the decades in prison that followed.

Art

On being seen: Online MoAD exhibition showcases the work of San Quentin artists

Maddy Clifford - October 21, 2020

In 'Meet Us Quickly,' artists incarcerated at the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 reframe their experience in the US prison-industrial complex.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t worry, he said, COVID’s ‘Totally Under Control’

Dennis Harvey - October 12, 2020

A new doc parses the US pandemic response catastrophe. Plus: Driving While Black, more

COVID

Inside the COVID explosion at San Quentin

Juan Moreno Haines - September 7, 2020

With 26 dead and at least a third of the population infected, why isn't medical parole part of the solution?

Cartoonist Tanna Tucker creates works of art to celebrate voices of incarcerated kids

Maddy Clifford - July 20, 2020

Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan to close California’s state-run youth prisons, an initiative that has since been stalled. But San Francisco...

News + Politics

SF Superior Court ends Zero Bail Policy, threatening public health

Tim Redmond - July 9, 2020

The San Francisco Superior Court has chosen not to continue the Zero Bail Policy that has reduced county jail populations across the state. That, a...

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Bay View editor may take legal action against private prison company

COVID outbreak — and media crackdown — at private halfway house in Tenderloin

Screen Grabs: New year brings films challenging us to rethink the status quo

Give prisoners the vaccine

Son’s dedication fuels doc on Black liberation group MOVE

On being seen: Online MoAD exhibition showcases the work of San Quentin artists

Screen Grabs: Don’t worry, he said, COVID’s ‘Totally Under Control’

Inside the COVID explosion at San Quentin

Cartoonist Tanna Tucker creates works of art to celebrate voices of incarcerated kids

SF Superior Court ends Zero Bail Policy, threatening public health

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