Nigel Poor

Sunday’s panel was about narratives of incarceration, yet the only one onstage who had personal experience with incarceration outside of volunteering was Alyssa Tamboura, the daughter of a previously incarcerated man.

An excellent representation of the prisoners’ humor is a photograph of a man holding a fish as big as himself, subtitled by a prisoner, “Who’s really caught!” 

At San Quentin State Prison, more than 2,000 inmates have access to numerous rehabilitation programs, ranging from educational to vocational, that are intended to provide skills and avenues for inmates’ success — for life both inside and outside the prison walls.