Allen Jones
55 and single, I began my adult life as a mechanical and electrical draftsmen in 1975. Almost twenty years later in 1983 I began attending church regularlly at the Voice of Pentecost Church San Francisco.
Again, almost twenty years later in 2001, I stopped attending the church that saved my life, though I will return. However, while attending church, from 1983 to 1993 I was a lay minister at the San Francisco juvenile hall where I taught the Bible to teenage murderers, rapist and gang members. Currently I am a prison reform activist.
If you would like to know more about me like, what makes me tick or what ticks me off, then I highly recommend you read my autobiography CASE GAME.
My social passion is the game of billiards (9 ball or 8 ball). I am a San Francisco 49er faithful. I am also a SF Giants fan BUT on strike or boycotting MLB. (I Will not attend, watch on TV or listen to radio broadcasts of MLB baseball until there is MLB accountability concerning the "Steroid era.") And no I am not holding my breath. However, I might end my boycott in 2012 if I believe in the new baseball commissioner replacing the retiring Bud Selig.
I love the Golden State Warrior fans as much as I do the team.
CREDITS:
Poem disarms gang members
By Rick Del Vecchio
June 12, 1989
San Francisco Chronicle (Feature)
Redemption possible for troubled youth
By Allen Jones
December 29, 1994
San Francisco Chronicle Op-ed (Received compensation)
Lay minister fears country has given up on delinquents
By Leslie Goldberg
May 1, 1995
San Francisco Examiner (Feature)
Stop the injustice at juvenile hall
By Allen Jones
July 17, 1994
San Francisco Chronicle Op-ed (Received compensation)
“Why Juvenile Hall Needs a Chaplain.”
By Allen Jones
July 19, 1996
San Francisco Chronicle Op-ed
Instant advocates
May 5, 2000
By Allen Jones
Los Angeles Daily Journal Op-ed (Received compensation)
New clemency system needed
By Allen Jones
June 2000
Los Angeles Daily Journal Op-ed (Received compensation)
Blacks and network TV
By Allen Jones
December 2000 (Received compensation)
Emerge Magazine, “Last Word”
Crime and too much punishment
By Allen Jones
June 28, 2000
San Francisco Examiner Op-ed
Voting a Barrier to Change for Minorities
By Allen Jones
April 25, 2003
http://archive.dailycal.org/article/11671/voting_a_barrier_to_change_for_minorities
California needs a new clemency system
By Allen Jones
December 24, 2008
California Progress Report.
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=node/1037
Let nonviolent prisoners out
By Allen Jones
June 12, 2008
LA Times.com Op-ed” Blowback”
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-bb12jun12,0,4708249.graffitiboard
Wanted! Black leaders…
By Allen Jones
August 13, 2009
BlackNews.com (paid comment)
http://www.blacknews.com/news/allen_jones201.shtml