Town hall events for San Quentin staff, population
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center leaders hosted back-to-back California Model town hall discussions with staff and the population.
Both Aug. 9 events elicited engagement from those who work and live inside San Quentin. The town halls prompted important discussions on how the California Model is already making an impact. They also confronted the challenges this community faces when fostering a facility-wide culture change. Leaders showed how they localized these changes, pointed to the ongoing transformation at the institution. They also explained their expectation for continued efforts to re-imagine San Quentin.
The events included discussions of:
- California Model foundational pillars
- insight from the institution’s California Model Resource Team
- and clear commitment from San Quentin leadership to improve the correctional environment through staff training and tools/resources to promote the well-being inside.
San Quentin Chief Executive Officer Rhonda Litt and acting Warden Chance Andes led these discussions, which played out before a large crowd of incarcerated people and staff on San Quentin’s lower yard.
Additional staff were in-person and watching on Microsoft Teams later in the day, when the pair continued the discussion inside the institution’s clinic.
San Quentin will continue these discussions this year, including a planned luncheon with staff and the population to brainstorm transformative change next month.
Learn more about San Quentin’s transformation on the CDCR website.
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