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Death Row Inmate Aims To Support Family By Selling His Journals, Art For $80K. Death Row inmate Albert Jones has documented the conditions of the prison system through his journals and cookbooks.
A collection of journals and books that inmate Albert Jones has written during decades on San Quentin’s death row will be on sale at a New York City book fair for an asking price of $80,000.
Olatushani is an artist and activist who spent 28 years in prison-20 on death row-for a murder he did not commit. Born in St. Louis, he was wrongfully convicted in 1985 for a Memphis killing.
In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, the crowded warren of concrete and iron cells, stacked five ...
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 ...
Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they have a bittersweet new lease on life.
Dr. Katie Owens-Murphy sits with art submitted for the "The Art of Resistance: Documenting Alabama's Death Row" exhibit at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham on July 21, 2024.