News Summary

• In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City.
• He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence.
• From behind bars, Lennon began reckoning with his crime through in-prison writing workshops.
• He’s since made a name for himself as an incarcerated journalist and has been published in The Atlantic, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine.
• “I think with true crime, it creates this thirst for punishment,” he says.