Category: Editor’s Note

Greetings, friends! Welcome back to another powerful issue of writing and art from the inside and beyond. This latest 72 pager is like no other, and we are incredibly honored to showcase the immense talent featured in this latest double issue, 26.03/04, of writing and art. We love what this one of kind publication provides for us readers and contributors – inside and out. Let’s keep the great work going! Let’s touch lives! Let’s teach by sharing our truths, our stories, our art! We are here for each other to learn and be inspired by. Thank you writers, supporters, friends

Happy New Year friends! It is an honor to bring you our first issue of 2021! Did you know come this September, The Beat Within will be 25 years old!? Yes, a quarter of century of writing and art from the inside and beyond shared in the pages of The Beat Within, with our amazing community of family, friends, brothers, sisters, allies, community partners, supporters, colleagues, teachers, students, artists, writers, lawyers, judges, probation officers, correctional officers, counselors, facilitators, typists, editors and complete strangers that we hope one day to meet. Thank you all for believing in our work and if

Welcome Welcome to our year-end double issue, 25.49/50, of The Beat Within. It is such an honor to have completed 50 issues of The Beat Within during such a challenging time in all of our lives.  We are incredibly thankful to all of you contributors who have stepped up to create and share with our amazing community this past year. We are also eternally grateful to all of our partners, colleagues, and supporters because without you all there is no program. Thank you ALL for believing in the work, as we prepare to enter our 25th year of service! Can

We would like to welcome you readers to another double edition, 25.47/48, of the one and only The Beat Within magazine. As most of you know, the COVID pandemic is taking this country by storm, as bad as it has ever been, as we await for a vaccine and cure, as we are truly feeling the effects in our writing sessions, as all of the institutions have smaller populations and are social distancing, as well as some sites are having to quarantine units who might have come into contact with COVID. It is such a strange time, as the year

Greetings friends! Welcome to another stellar edition of The Beat Within. This latest double issue is full of solid writings from our friends and colleagues (free and incarcerated) around the great state of California and beyond.  It is such an honor to create this platform every two weeks and have the ability to share the art and writings from so many good hearted people, many we know and some we only know through their writing submissions.  We owe a big thanks to you contributors, as you all are a part of history, when submitting your work to The Beat Within.

Greetings frends! Welcome to another amazing double dose edition of the one and only The Beat Within! We are truly proud of the great work you are about to read inside this important issue of writing and art.  As was the case in the last couple issues, we have asked our dear friend and colleague, Omar “OT” Turcios to write this latest editorial note.  FYI, as this issue goes to print, we are still uncertain as to who will be president of the USA going into the new year.  What a week! Watching the numbers and hearing and reading about

We would like to welcome you readers back to another fabulous double dose edition, 25.41/42, of the one and only The Beat Within!  There is so much goodness in this latest issue, and we are thrilled that you have taken this moment to read our latest editorial note.  We are truly digging this ed note even more, give our dear friend and long-time colleague, OT, is back behind the computer giving us a dose of his truths, with the last issue’s wonderful editorial.  What can we say about OT!? Our relationship goes back nearly 20 years. We first met this

Greetings! We welcome back you readers to another fabulous edition, 25.39/40, of the one and only The Beat Within. This latest issue is packed with wonderful writings and art from our many outstanding contributors and friends.  We know there is plenty to read and share, so we are thrilled that you have this latest issue in your hands. This week we have asked our long-time friend and colleague, OT, to write this latest editorial note.  There is no need to give you any further background, given OT will take it from here… I was introduced to The Beat Within, a

Welcome to another fabulous double issue of The Beat Within! This latest issue is full of thoughtful writings and art, including our winning pieces from our recent Visions Of Reform Issue. A big thank you goes out to our partner the NICJR  (National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform) for helping us make this special issue on reform possible.   In this latest issue of The Beat we are showcasing the winning essays and artwork from our youth and adults who submitted work for this special issue. We love the pieces and we hope you do too. A big congratulations to

We would like to welcome you readers back to another great edition of the one and only The Beat Within. Hard to believe 24 years ago we started this one of a kind publication inside the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center aka Youth Guidance Center. We, as an organization, have truly come a long way from our initial workshops and that first issue on the death of Tupac Shakur.  Happy anniversary to The Beat Within, what an amazing journey we have all been on. Thank you colleagues, friends, readers and writers for playing such an important role in our evolution.