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It’s Hard to Stay Motivated When You’re Facing ‘Death by Incarceration’

LaMarr W. Knox on stalled prison reform measures: “In New York prisons, hope is nonexistent because so many of us are loaded up with long sentences.”

Life Inside • 01.16.2026

For a Prison Transfer 45 Minutes Away, I Spent 12 Days in Hell

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green Haven prison.

Life Inside • 12.13.2024

How the Police and Vigilante Killings of Black People Have Forced Me to Look Inside

It feels hypocritical to reserve my rage for the men who killed Tyre Nichols and Trayvon Martin when I, too, have taken Black lives.

Life Inside • 01.19.2024

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