My sentence was finalized. This is what's known as "going red."However, I wasn't taken to prison immediately that day. I was ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In September 2018, I published a story in New York about the mental-illness ...

Prison is a realm of extreme unknowns. A walk to the mess hall can erupt in a 10-man brawl. A sunny morning in the yard can escalate into gas canisters being fired from the watchtower. This past July, ...

An interview with the author of The Hill about her debut novel and the artist’s role in documenting atrocities.

P.G. Sittenfeld is a writer and public speaker who lives in Cincinnati with his wife and three sons. Sitting in a car in a McDonald’s parking lot in January 2024, I made a final call to my wife, Sarah ...

My life changed forever on October 1st, 2013. I had just walked into my new job when I received this voicemail, “Mr. Stanland, this is Special Agent McTiernan with the FBI. We are at your residence ...

A Christmas party in prison presented me with one of the first opportunities I had to spend quality time with my teenage daughter. She was just 3 years old when I was caught with crack cocaine and, ...