James King is a former San Quentin inmate who says he commends Governor Newsom's plan on improving California's prisons. King now works to pass legislation to improve prisons across the country.
James King is a former San Quentin inmate who says he commends Governor Newsom's plan on improving California's prisons.James King is a former San Quentin inmate and the co-director of programs for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.for focusing on improving our prisons.
"I love the governor's, that he thinks about people in prison, that he's thinking about to make safer communities. I've been a really big fan of his work to close prison yards in enclosed prisons as well as dismantling the infrastructure for California's death row." But King, who served time at San Quentin from 2013 to 2019, says the culture inside the prisons needs to change, specifically with prison guards and their view of inmates."The culture engrained and taught among the prison guards from their time at training academy is one that sees the people who they are incarcerating as threats to public safety," he said. "It's going to take a lot more than a policy change or renaming the prison to change to the culture among the guards.
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