Tagged: San Quentin

Over the past nine months, KALW has been working with inmates in San Quentin State Prison to train them in radio production – the tools for telling their own stories. We’re officially launching The San Quentin Radio Project on KALW later this summer. Today, we’ve got a story to share about how a restorative justice program helped one offender move past his crime. Here’s reporter Tommy Shakur Ross of the San Quentin Radio Project.

Between 2000 and 2009, 57,000 men and women convicted of murder were released from state and federal prison.

By the time convicted murderers are released, they’ve usually served decades behind bars; they’re a generation older than when they went to prison. When they come out, they often fade from view – no sensational headlines, no fanfare.  They make their way on the outside in a world that’s can be very different from the one they left.