Inmates invest in Salinas libraries’ future

Three Cheers for the inmates of San Quentin Prison. Prisoners in San Quentin’s inmate-to-inmate tutoring program sponsored something of a bake sale for literacy, selling doughnuts, pizza and fried chicken to other prisoners. Today, they will present a $1,000 check to the ailing Salinas Free Library, plus another $500 for literacy services in Marin County.
“If you take away libraries and recreation centers, the only place kids have to end up is a place like this,” said convicted killer Olish Tunstall, 39, who came up with the idea to help Salinas after seeing a story about it on the news.