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John J. Lennon

John J. Lennon is a writer and journalist incarcerated in New York and a PJP advisor. He hosted a podcast at Sing Sing, where he was previously incarcerated, and he is a contributing editor for Esquire Magazine and The Marshall Project. John was a finalist for the 2019 National Magazine Awards in Feature Writing and received an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Molly National Journalism Award. (Photo by Christaan Felber)