amity

The shark, as a threat, is foreign, is ultimately conquerable, and can be left in the past without requiring any self-reflection from the residents of Amity Island.

Doug Bond, a co-chair on the advisory group and the head of the Amity Foundation, a nonprofit that works with formerly incarcerated people, said the recommendations, if implemented, would be transformative for both inmates and prison staff.

Bond is the head of the Amity Foundation, which runs this facility in partnership with CDCR, and is the co-chair of the advisory committee charged with reimagining San Quentin.

He was a foster kid, he told me, who had been plucked from the system by the founder of Amity, a woman who had been incarcerated herself.

“We are ecstatic,” Sophie Amity Debs, who helped organize the Save Denny Blaine campaign against the project, said Friday.