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The state should house people living with mental illness

By Jack Bragen on August 1, 2020

When we see our fellow human beings wither away and die on the streets, when we see encampments in the news that appear not much better than living under a pile of trash, when we see human beings who have names...the cure is not worse than the disease. Something must be done.

Why would anyone want to live on the street?

By Timothy Busby on August 1, 2020

Commentary First-person Opinion

Only after I accepted the fact that the person I was before was never coming back…could I begin to accept another life.

Large-scale decarceration is the only way to halt COVID outbreaks in prison

By Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition on July 17, 2020

Commentary News Opinion

Releasing a mere 6 percent of the people inside California’s overcrowded prisons falls woefully short of the large-scale decarceration needed to protect the health and safety of the community.

Incarcerated insights into isolation

By Joe Garcia on August 1, 2020

Commentary Features Opinion

To those of you going stir crazy while struggling to shelter-in-place and self-isolate, please try and focus on the positive aspects of this new reality. It’s important to find your own beacon of light to pull yourself through the worst of the chaos. Decades of incarceration have taught me this and ingrained in me the coping skills to get through any seemingly depressing situation.

I am incarcerated at San Quentin. I have COVID-19.

By Thanh Tran on July 17, 2020

First-person Opinion

I write this after 3 days of being curled into a fetal position, fighting off COVID-19. I was sick and bedridden when I received my test results that read, "COVID Negative." This is what it looks like to test someone and then try to transfer them.

Right side of history

By Steve Brooks on July 17, 2020

Commentary First-person Opinion

When future generations look back on the devastation caused by this coronavirus pandemic, they are likely going to say that what happened to incarcerated populations in America’s prisons is tantamount to crimes against humanity.

The coming repression

By Hiding Place Press on June 14, 2020

Commentary Opinion

A resource guide on what to do now that Antifa is "domestic terrorism."

Everyone deserves to shelter in place, including homeless people

By TJ Johnston on May 22, 2020

First-person Opinion YSA youth contributions

“Sheltering in place” is a privilege that over 9,000 unhoused San Franciscans do not enjoy. Yet, shelters are congregate environments where people sleep barely more than two feet away from one another, head to foot or top to bottom in bunks.

Lost mothers

By Mavin Carter-Griffin on May 12, 2020

First-person Opinion

An ode to those celebrating Mother's Day on the street.

The pandemic resembles one of my psychotic episodes

By Jack Bragen on April 1, 2020

First-person Opinion YSA youth contributions

The current pandemic makes it seem as though the world has gone insane. This time, I'm not crazy, but neither are other people. Reality has taken a surreal turn.