Words from a Prisoner
Devin A. GiordanoWords from a Prisoner offers reporting and reflection from inside prison on policy, mental health, and the lived realities of incarceration.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 57 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Before They Checked My Heart, They Stripped Me Naked
A routine prison medical trip turned into one of the most humiliating experiences of my incarceration.
After nearly Twelve years in prison, I thought I understood the limits of humiliation that come with living inside a correctional facili...
Thank You for Standing With Devin
Update: Following the email and phone zap campaign, Devin has been safely transferred out of Eastern Correctional Facility and is currently housed at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, away from the retaliatory treatment and hostile environme...
I Can't Stay In My Cell Forever
I’ve been incarcerated for 11 and a half years. During that time, I have dedicated my life to personal betterment, service, and creating meaningful opportunities for men serving long sentences in prison. My work has always been centered aro...
What a Birthday Looks Like in Prison
After twelve birthdays behind bars, I have learned that prison changes not only how you celebrate, but what celebration even means.
Note: I originally wrote this piece the morning after my 30th birthday in October 2024. It sat unfinished i...
The Chemical Contract
American prisons have become laboratories for untreated neurodivergence, where the 'misfits' of the 1990s are being processed into the overdose statistics of today.
I was born in 1994, which, looking back, was a hell of a year to start a l...
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I am an incarcerated writer who writes personal essays about the realities of life inside prison.
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