'I want to be remembered.' Death row inmate auctions his San Quentin journals, art for $80,000

'I want to be remembered.' Death row inmate auctions his San Quentin journals, art for $80,000

Jones has embraced a sense of purpose in prison, documenting community life on San Quentin's death row through writing and art. He has been held up as a model prisoner and met with Gov. Gavin Newsom last summer.

Death-Row Inmate Puts Art and Notebooks For Sale for $80,000, But the Move Angers Victim’s Family

This month, for an asking price of $80,000 a Sonoma County bookseller could sell the writings and artwork of death-row inmate Albert "Ru-Al" Jones at the posh New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, reports Hannah Wiley for the Los Angeles Times. “There is no other archive like this in existence,” said Ben Kinmont, the Sebastopol bookseller representing Jones in the sale.Diego Godoy, associate curator of the California and Hispanic collect…