Thirty-three students from three separate facilities in the Division of Juvenile Justice, or DJJ, are enrolled to start an online Ethnic Studies curriculum, in collaboration with San Francisco State University, or SFSU, and Project Rebound.
A refugee who spent 25 years at San Quentin Prison, where he became a journalist and a rape counselor while he was incarcerated, was deported to his homeland of Cambodia, over the pleas of activists who argued he had changed his life for the better and should remain in the United States since he served his full prison sentence.