Our mental-health-care system is broken. Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside — a series of lost lives and a few rare victories — as reported by John J. Lennon for Esquire.
In a story produced in partnership with The Marshall Project and Vice, John J. Lennon explains how surveillance cameras drastically reduced assault by correctional officers in Attica, one of America’s most notorious prisons.
Prisoners’ families should be allowed to order them books, John J. Lennon writes in his piece for The Guardian, as long as they don’t promote violence or radical ideologies. Current restrictions are self-defeating.
In an article for OPERA America, John J. Lennon covers American opera singer Joyce DiDonato’s visit to Sing Sing Correctional Facility and her collaboration with fellow prisoner — and composer — Joseph Wilson.
John J. Lennon conducts a Q&A with Bianca Tylek, director of a new initiative at the Urban Justice Center called the Corrections Accountability Project for The Harvard Law Record.
John J. Lennon reviews Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 by Heather Ann Thompson for the Fall 2017 issue of The Hedgehog Review.
In too many American prisons, John J. Lennon writes in an essay for Pacific Standard, fathers and sons live just a cell block apart. Here’s one way lifers are joining correctional workers to break the cycle.
In a commentary originally published in the Albany Times Union, John J. Lennon argues that the resources that prisoners receive while incarcerated — or don’t — will have a huge effect on society, especially once prisoners are released.
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, John argues that college programs help American prisoners become more educated and connected, and that alumni of these programs rarely return to prison.
In an article for The Atlantic, John J. Lennon — a man serving 28 years to life at the Attica Correctional Facility — explains why believes a few simple laws could significantly affect criminal behavior. EXCERPT My first gun was a chrome .25 caliber automatic with a pink, pearl handle. It was beautiful. But it…
