Mental Illness in Solitary Confinement: Speaking Bird With the Warden
Jeremy Busby describes how mental illness in solitary confinement is ignored by prison officials, even when a seriously ill prisoner communicates almost entirely through bird…
Jeremy Busby describes how mental illness in solitary confinement is ignored by prison officials, even when a seriously ill prisoner communicates almost entirely through bird…
Jeremy Busby writes about a friend on death row whose influence transformed his life in prison and whose legacy continues long after his execution by…
Jeremy Busby writes about prison food illness and why meals served inside jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers routinely make people sick. Incarceration has always…
Jeremy Busby shares how fatherhood in prison transformed his life and gave him renewed purpose despite devastating obstacles. Becoming a father was no doubt my…
Psycho. Fresh, Peace Maker, Lee 3, G-Town, Turtle, and C-Murda are just a few of the prison nicknames some of the prisoners on my cellblock…
Prison life has revealed that even behind bars, the spirit of entrepreneurs can thrive in the most unexpected—and often disturbing—ways. There are all sorts of…
Jeremy Busby explains how he pulled off the biggest hip hop concert in Texas prison history — starring Trapboy Freddy. By the time I arrived…
Guys are dying of overdoses and suicides in a Texas prison. One inmate, Jeremy Busby, tries to help. Then his best friend commits suicide. Do…
My cellmate and I were like best friends. We ate together, shared our family photos and were a perfect match. The both of us had…
There are a ton of answers that you would receive if you asked an incarcerated person, “If you had one wish, what would it be?”…
I remember the first time I smoked K2 in prison — synthetic marijuana! It was in 2007, I was housed at the supermax prison in…
When my mom disappeared, my father had already produced seven other children that he was unable to care for, and my mother had two…
I was four years old when my mom vanished out of thin air one day. Both of my parents were high school dropouts and were…
They made a journalist out of me. And that, my friends, is something of extreme significance. I came to prison with an eight grade education.…
Hanging out or talking to a sex offender in prison is extremely taboo. In fact, it could possibly get you hurt or even killed.…
Gabriele was an upbeat cat for a prisoner with a life sentence. I remember the day that I met him. I was having a difficult…
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