KQED NEWSROOM: Stand Up San Quentin

Once known only as a violent and dangerous place, San Quentin State Prison now has some of the most innovative rehabilitation programs in the California prison system.
In this KQED Newsroom special, Stand Up San Quentin, we get an inside look at a program where inmates write and perform their own stories.
“I'll never forget my first morning at San Quentin,” says inmate Emile DeWeaver in his monologue.
“When you're in prison for so long, you get used to one costume. And it's blue,” says inmate Azraal Ford to an audience of fellow prisoners. “We all look like Smurfs in here.”
We’ll also hear from Dionne Wilson, a victims' rights advocate whose husband was murdered and who found healing by volunteering in prison, and from former San Quentin inmate Troy Williams, who sheds light on life after prison.

[@teamcougars]

That comedy workshop is probably therapeutic for those guys 😅

[@juliemitchell3794]

Strange thing for me to think: I am proud of these men. They can make it in the real world. It won't be easy. Take baby steps.

[@tedviramontes8384]

God bless you!!!! jesus died for sin so we cannot judge

[@thomasnorman9723]

I have a San Quentin Story....what brought me here??...my story

[@RobertAngarella]

yeah me to I've been to Northblock and h unit.

[@westchavez997]

Don't let them fool u they are bad men I did 12 years trust me they will never change they are lies may they spend the rest of there life's in prison

[@helenarose580]

Wall street carrol