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A Leading Prison Journalist Upends Our Obsession With True Crime

John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

Q&A • 11.04.2025

How to Write for The Marshall Project’s Life Inside

Life Inside is a weekly series of first-person essays from people who live or work in the criminal justice system. Here are answers to the questions people ask us most.

Life Inside • 04.13.2022

“We All Have An Expiration Date”: The Death of a Prison Writer

Among the many incarcerated people who have died from COVID-19 was Marshall Project contributor Timothy Bazrowx, one of Texas’ best chroniclers of prison life.

Coronavirus • 05.02.2020

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