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The Felonist is a serialized memoir built from real prison journals written at Rikers, Bedford, Albion, and Danbury. Through woven journal entries, each episode reveals the lived experience of incarceration — trauma, reckoning, motherhood, addiction, faith, and the slow reconstruction of identity …

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Uncrushed and Unintimidated
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Uncrushed and Unintimidated

June 10, 2026 22:13

The Felonist continues her early days at Albion, still riding the shockwave of the “cork popping” healing that left her clearer, lighter, and unexpectedly connected to something bigger than herself. As she moves through Phase One, she’s writing nonstop, walking …

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22:13 S3E42

Uncrushed and Unintimidated

The Felonist continues her early days at Albion, still riding the shockwave of the “cork popping” healing that left her clearer, lighter, and unexpectedly connected to something bigger than herself. …

23:59 S3E41

Pop Goes the Cork: Arrival at Albion

The Felonist arrives at Albion Correctional Facility after a brutal transport ride and steps into a women’s prison that’s calmer than Bedford but still a cage. As she tries to …

28:21 S2E40

Only Crazy People Eat Shit

In this episode I learn what “crazy” really means in prison. You’re not crazy if you’re playing with your shit, painting with it, acting out with it, using it to …

23:40 S2E37

The Dark Night of Self-Torment

Early August doesn’t hit me with outside blows — it turns inward. Melancholy settles in like fog, and self‑punishment becomes a daily ritual I perform without hesitation. I move through …

29:46 S2E38

Beaten Bloody and On the Ropes

Late July hits me like a series of blows in a mismatched prize fight — me on the ropes, bruised, bleeding, and getting clobbered. The shock denial, the fear of …