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.

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.

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.

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.