John J. Lennon is serving 28 years to life at Sing Sing Correctional
Facility in Ossining, NY. He is a contributing writer for The Marshall
Project, and has written for Esquire, The New York Times, The Atlantic,
Vice, Pacific Standard, among others. He can be reached at
johnjlennonjournalist@gmail.com; read more at johnjlennon.org.
Editor’s note: Reporter and teacher Shaheen Pasha (2018 Nieman Fellow) met John J. Lennon when she interviewed him for a larger package she did on writing programs and newspapers inside America’s prisons. (Her in-depth report can be found at our … Read more
