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Joe Garcia

Joe Garcia is a journalist and PJP correspondent incarcerated in California. Garcia was previously a staff writer and the chair of the Journalism Guild for San Quentin News. In addition to prison publications, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Sacramento Bee.

Cell block at San Quentin State Prison, California
Posted inKites

The Deep Freeze Inside San Quentin’s ‘Jail Within a Jail’

by Joe Garcia August 6, 2023July 21, 2023
A bank of phone booths against a gray background
Posted inEssays & Memoirs

How Love Gets Me Through Solitary Confinement

by Joe Garcia April 13, 2023April 7, 2023
Entrance gate to San Quentin State Prison in California
Posted inNews

After Two Years of COVID, Nation’s Hardest Hit Prison Returns to Normal

by Joe Garcia September 12, 2022September 11, 2022
Actors at San Quentin play different roles on stage for their December 2021 performance with Marin Shakespeare Company.
Posted inNews

At San Quentin, Theater Troupe Pulls Off a ‘Miracle’

by Joe Garcia August 18, 2022August 18, 2022
Mount Tamalpais College graduate Steve Brooks wears a cap, gown and mask at his graduation ceremony.
Posted inNews

Nation’s First Standalone Prison Campus Celebrates Graduation

by Joe Garcia August 8, 2022August 13, 2022
Sign at San Quentin that reads "Lower Yard Closed"
Posted inNews

At San Quentin, It’s (Still) One COVID-19 Quarantine After Another

by Joe Garcia August 1, 2022July 30, 2022
Posted inNews

Honoring Those Who Died from COVID

by Joe Garcia January 13, 2022February 18, 2022
Posted inFrom Prison Newspapers, Q&A

Q&A: San Quentin Chief Physician Discusses COVID Outbreak, Public Health

by Joe Garcia December 28, 2021May 26, 2022
Posted inFeature

Under Quarantine, Confined in Solitary

by Joe Garcia November 8, 2021August 9, 2022
Posted inFrom Prison Newspapers, News

Changing the Culture at Rikers Island

by Joe Garcia October 15, 2021May 26, 2022

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