Prison Truth

The Story of the San Quentin News

William J. Drummond (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29836-1 (ISBN)

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San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News.

Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.

William J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.

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Acknowledgments

PART I A primer on prison
1. Overview
2. Prison Voices Heard
3. Soledad Brothers
4. Kennedy to Cleaver
5. The Primary Election
6. The Johnny Cash Myth
7. A West Oakland Murder
8. The Lee Commission and the “Tough-on-Crime” Era
9. The San Quentin News
10. The Founding Fathers
11. Media Recognition
12. Sam Robinson
13. Race in the Prison Newsroom
14. The Key Players

PART II The characters in the newsroom
15. Arnulfo García
16. Glenn Bailey
17. Juan Haines
18. Rahsaan Thomas
19. Richard (Bonaru) Richardson
20. Watani Stiner
21. Kevin Sawyer
22. Asians in the Newsroom
23. Aly Tamboura
24. Little Nick’s Story
25. He Came to Me in a Dream

PART III How it all came together
26. The Press in Prison
27. Philanthropy
28. The Forums
29. A New Narrative

PART IV Moving forward
30. Journalism and Rehabilitation
31. The Campus and the Prison
32. Is This Scalable?
33. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
34. Epilogue

Notes 281
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	12 b-w images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	0-520-29836-5 / 0520298365
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29836-1 / 9780520298361
Zustand	Neuware