The San Francisco Giants will provide support to San Quentin’s prison baseball team, which will be renamed the San Quentin Giants.
The prison team has operated for 70 years and serves as a form of rehabilitation, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Thursday in a press release.
The Giants will provide uniforms and equipment as well as support with mental health and physical performance to the San Quentin team.
The two teams have worked together in the past, but the Giants are now pledging to provide more resources than before.
“Support from the San Francisco Giants will help raise awareness for valuable restorative programming that makes communities safer and have a remarkable impact on those incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center,” said Branden Terrell, an advisor at the Pollen Initiative, an organization that facilitates rehabilitation programs in U.S. prisons.
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