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San Quentin Film Festival (SQFF) to Hold Event at Central California Women’s Facility  AwardsWatch

Women of San Quentin (1983)  IMDb

Prison film fest brings Hollywood and healing to US jailhouse  eNCA

‘Friendly Signs’ Documentary Follows One Man’s Quest to Create Community for Deaf Prisoners  The Marshall Project

How Some San Quentin Inmates Are Using Film to Hold Themselves Accountable  Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

The Auteurs of San Quentin  The Hollywood Reporter

Voices from Solitary: The Legacy of Black August at San Quentin Prison  Solitary Watch

Johnny Cash plays San Quentin State Prison  History.com

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

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

Prison Made Me a Screenwriter!  Alta Journal

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

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

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

2024 Year in Review: CDCR and CCHCS  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (.gov)

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

Week in Review: March 22, 2024  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (.gov)

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

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

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

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

Serial killer Joseph Naso claims 26 victims in Northern California, according to new Oxygen documentary  ABC7 San Francisco

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

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

Danny Trejo: The actor who went from prisoner to film star  BBC

Chilling Stories From San Quentin  grunge.com

Golden Age Hollywood was Full of Ex-Cons  CrimeReads

Let’s Fan-Cast Folie à Deux’s Fictional Joker TV Movie  Vulture