Writing Freedom From Within The Pen: Relocated

In the new Jim Crow era - where the sons of the crack epidemic fill prison beds and the 13th Amendment keeps legalized slavery alive - J. S. Russell discover a weapon more powerful than bar, bullets or time: his pen.

Writing Freedom, Volume 3 cracks opens the mind of a man convicted of murder - a man who refuses to be defined by a single moment. Through raw poetry, unfiltered reflections, confessions, dreams, hope, and the quiet romances that kept him human, Russell reveals what survival really looks like on the inside.

It isn't just prison poetry.

This is transformation.

This is truth.

This is what freedom sounds like when the world tries to silence you.

Step inside the walls.

Feel the weight.

Witness the rise.

J. S. Russell is a poet, writer, educator and returned citizen who has self-published six books of poetry and two children's books while incarcerated. His work has been published by NYU's Review of Law and Social Change digital publication The Harbinger and PEN America. J. S. Russell's work shines light on the experiences, insights and reflection of an incarcerated black man. He brings awareness to the power of words by emphasizing that he wrote his freedom.