John J. Lennon
Prison Journalist
RECENT JOURNALISM BY JOHN J. LENNON
Can the Parole Process Make Prison Sentences More Just?
The Prisoner and the Pen
True Crime and Punishment: An Exchange
How Do People Released From Prison Find Housing?
Peddling Darkness
The Prison Letters Project: Considering Past Trauma
Cover photo: Christaan Felber
ABOUT JOHN J. LENNON
John J. Lennon currently serving a 28-years-to-life sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility for murder, drug sales and gun possession.
He is a contributing editor at Esquire and a contributing writer at the Marshall Project. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and elsewhere.
JOHN J. LENNON’S TWITTER
Shouts out to @keribla for her Pulitzer nomination for a feature about D&D in the joint. Well-deserved -- this piece is dope!
This article, which was part of the Prison Letters Project at Yale Law School, is the kind of story we hope to continue to highlight. If you know someone in prison experiencing an injustice - too much time, a wrongful conviction - tell them to write PLP.
Glad that Gov. Hochul has allotted money in the budget for people with mental illness to get treated somewhere other than jail or prison. As I wrote in 2019, the awful reality is 10 out of 11 psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated.
Check out John J Lennon chopping it but with Wilbert Rideau: