Man sentenced to 118 years to life for Berkeley shooting
Wallace was convicted for the murder of Gary Ferguson Jr., 35, and the attempted murder of Larry Belle in a shooting outside of Johnson’s House Styles, a barbershop.
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Tag Archives: San Quentin State Prison
Berkeley alumni’s program to educate prisoners receives National Humanities Medal
The Prison University Project will be awarded the National Humanities Medal at the White House on Thursday for its efforts to provide the currently incarcerated with higher education.
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Oakland man sentenced to 2 years in prison for assault with deadly weapon
An Oakland man was sentenced to two years in prison May 12 after pleading no contest to two counts of assault, including one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
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Incarceration to convocation
Life after solitary confinement: How education paved the way for Danny Murillo
Danny Murillo is one of thousands of formerly incarcerated persons struggling to re-enter society. How does someone like Murillo, who statistically should be back behind bars, end up at a place like UC Berkeley?
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District attorney and former warden debate death penalty on campus
Hundreds of students packed Wheeler Auditorium Wednesday to hear a debate between the Contra Costa County district attorney and a former prison warden on Proposition 34, a ballot measure that aims to end California’s death penalty at the polls in November.
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Former warden from San Quentin and DA debate over the death penalty
Mark A. Peterson, the district attorney from Contra Costa County and Jeanne Woodford from Death Penalty Focus and former Warden of San Quentin State Prison debate the death penalty in Political Science 179, a seminar at UC Berkeley.
