SAN DIEGO
More than 43 years ago, a killer forced a married couple into the basement of their downtown San Diego clothing store then bound them with neckties taken from the sales floor.
James and Essie Effron, just weeks from retirement, recently had hired and then fired the man who became their assailant, a clerk who was supposed to help with a going-out-of-business sale. In November 1977, the ex-clerk returned with two accomplices and beat the couple to death. James Effron survived long enough to tell police what had happened.
This month, the man convicted in those murders has a hearing to determine whether he is suitable for parole. It’s his 15th try.
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SCHOOL DAZE: How COVID Impacts Education Prison Literature Club Adapts During COVID Lockdowns
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The last graduation ceremony of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s ROOTS program at San Quentin, on June 9, 2019. (Hien Nguyen)
(This is the second in a series of articles produced in partnership with journalists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in collaboration with the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network.)
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER
Part I
How can education in prisons continue when faced with the limitations of the COVID-19 lockdown?
For the past five years, the Oakland-based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) taught ethnic studies at San Quentin prison in Marin County. The weekly program was called ROOTS short for “Restoring Our Original True Selves.”