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The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The bookseller representing him says it offers a rare glimpse into life on one of ...
Al” Jones reached out to Ben Kinmont five years ago looking for help. Today, the pair are seeking $80,000 for Jones’ manuscripts.
A death row inmate, Jones spent more than 30 years in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, San Quentin ... He began writing and creating art, using his voice to document prison life.
Newsom zeroed in on San Quentin when he first took office — almost immediately he placed a moratorium on prison executions and began to transfer death row prisoners from San Quentin to other ...
Jones has nonetheless embraced a sense of purpose in prison, documenting community life on San Quentin's death row through writing and art. He has been held up as a model prisoner and met with Gov.
SAN FRANCISCO — In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness ...
Jones has nonetheless embraced a sense of purpose in prison, documenting community life on San Quentin's death row through writing and art. He has been held up as a model prisoner and met with Gov.
Jones has nonetheless embraced a sense of purpose in prison, documenting community life on San Quentin's death row through writing and art. He has been held up as a model prisoner and met with Gov.