Jason Hunter has opened a new cafe downtown as head chef — less than a decade after facing a 12-year sentence in the San Luis Obispo County Jail. After leaving the military in 1998, a serious PTSD diagnosis led him down a “dark path” of drug and alcohol addiction, which resulted in his arrest and […]
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Helping inmates one class at a time
Bianka Mariles finished wiping down the last yoga mat as women began filing into the room for Friday’s yoga class. Cynthia McCabe, who instructs the class weekly, stood at the top of her mat and greeted the room full of women dressed in orange jumpsuits. For the next hour, the women moved from one pose […]
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Art and incarceration
Cal Poly students helped put artwork produced by minors in the juvenile hall system into a meaningful gallery.