Tim Young

This is a very special collaboration between Timothy James Young who has been on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison since 2006 and UCSC IAS. From a windowless cell on San Quentin's East Block, a lockdown unit that houses the majority of the 750 people currently on California's Death Row, Tim sends letters, poems, and plant lists to the students and volunteers that keep Solitary Garden growing. Below are links to those writings and more information about Tim Young and his Appellate Court case. Solitary Gardener, Tim Young, from his solitary cell in San Quentin, has been writing us since August 2019, with letters detailing the garden he designed for UC Santa Cruz. In March 2020, Tim's letters began to to reflect the changing circumstances in San Quentin. Read his almost weekly reports of the conditions in San Quentin due to COVID-19 here as well as his earlier letters.

Write to Tim: Timothy Young, #F23374, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA 94974

Tim’s letters are documented here . More on the Tim’s garden at UCSC here.