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Inside a Prison Gym, a Film Festival Rewrites the Story of Incarceration  Davis Vanguard

The Price of Recognition: What Happened After the First-Ever San Quentin Film Festival  International Documentary Association

San Quentin and the case of the clairvoyant crime ring  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - CDCR (.gov)

Prison film fest brings Hollywood and healing to US jailhouse  eNCA

‘Ear Hustle’ Introduces Us to Seniors in the California Institution for Women  KQED

KPBS Film Looks at Post-incarceration Life for Women  KPBS

Prison Made Me a Screenwriter!  Alta Journal

Mandi's Diary: Real Life As San Quentin's Only Transgender Prison Guard  HuffPost

At San Quentin, LGBTQ prisoners and once-biased inmates try to heal together  NBC News

Chris Paul, a trip to San Quentin and a window into what he brings to the Warriors  The New York Times

Elizabeth Duncan: The Story Behind the Last Woman Executed in California  The Santa Barbara Independent

Support to custody: Early female prison staff  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - CDCR (.gov)

Jennifer Siebel Newsom on ‘The Mask You Live In’ and Getting Jocks to Watch the Doc  Nonfics

Eureka native broke barriers at San Quentin in 1970s  The Ukiah Daily Journal

Sunday Randomness: A happy San Quentin ending, Raiders of the morning, meet Fran Belibi  The New York Times

Silent screen stars gave voice to rehabilitation  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - CDCR (.gov)

1897 film of convicted killer Durrant shapes prison policy -  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - CDCR (.gov)

Condemned Inmate Lonnie Franklin Dies - News Releases  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - CDCR (.gov)

Actresses Who Are Stuck In Prison For Years  grunge.com

Marcia Clark Investigates Barbara Graham's 1953 Murder Trial  A&E

Merle Haggard Wondered if This Important Woman in His Life Was Even Real in Emotional 1998 Interview  American Songwriter

Chilling Stories From San Quentin  grunge.com

San Francisco’s Queen of Abortions gets her moment of recognition  The Outline

Belly of the Beast: California's dark history of forced sterilizations  The Guardian

Johnny Cash plays San Quentin State Prison  History.com

The True Story Behind 'The Old Man & the Gun'  Time Magazine

Orange is the New Black: History of Women's Prison Films  People.com

Murder in the Belfry: How the Story of Theodore Durrant Captivated Victorian San Francisco  KQED