Thousands of people released from prison in New York go directly to homeless shelters.
Author: Teresa Tauchi
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Peddling Darkness
True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?
John J. Lennon was selected to join the fourth cohort of Galaxy Gives’ Galaxy Leader Fellowship Program. Galaxy Gives is the philanthropic entity of the Mike and Sukey Novogratz Family.
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The Right to Be Artful
The advantage of the prison journalist is the ability to access the pure story without first coming to know the character through his worst deed.
Working with Emily Bazelon on The New York Times Magazine’s Prison Letters Project, John J. Lennon dives into letters from Ivié DeMolina, who was convicted for her part in the 1994 murders of one man in New York and another in New Jersey.
I’ve been locked up in maximum-security prisons for two decades. My time on Rikers Island was worse.
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Sex, Love & Marriage Behind Bars
In this feature for the Winter 2023 issue of Esquire, John J. Lennon writes about one of the last bastions of prisoner intimacy in America: the conjugal trailers of New York.
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How Vaccine Hesitancy Spread in My Prison
In this essay for The New York Times, John J. Lennon writes about how distrust for the American government may effect the vaccine rollout throughout our corrections system.