The San Quentin News seeks to humanize inmates

From Columbia Journalism Review Tue Oct 28 2014, 11:50:00

By Jessica Pishko The first time I met Juan Haines, the 56-year-old managing editor of the San Quentin News, he gleefully showed me a very blurry photo of a young African-American man, the kind from a security camera. "Do you recognize this man?" he asked. The other men in the newsroom chuckled. This was clearly some sort of joke. I looked...

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