Prison blogs

Examples of prison blogs

• Tim Selwyn in Mount Eden Prison, New Zealand, ca.2006

• a collection of blogs and articles relating the experience of life in Thailand's many overcrowded prisons.

• written by Ben Gunn, imprisoned in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England, 2009–2012. Since his release, Ben has continued his blog.
• Anarch*ish* written by Jonathan May-Bowles, serving 6-week sentence for throwing a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, 2011
• Tommy Sheridan, in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow
• written by Adam Mac, imprisoned in Grendon. He launched the blog in 2013 and has repeatedly had to deal with challenges to his right to blog, years after other prisoners had won this right.
• written by Alex Cavendish, an ex-prisoner who was released in March 2014. The blog was launched in July 2014.

• Minutes Before Six, a blog and writing community for prisoners in the United States without internet access, who can have their work posted online via volunteers.
• by Paul Modrowski, an autistic man serving life without parole at Stateville prison in Illinois. He was given a life without parole sentence based on an accountability theory for supposedly lending his car to Bob Faraci who was later acquitted.
• written by Leigh Sprague, currently serving a sentence in a federal prison camp in California for a non-violent white-collar crime. The posts document his journey through the criminal justice system, from initial charges to indictment to sentencing as well as his experiences in prison and his outspoken views in regard to the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration
• written by William D. Hastings, serving a 19-year sentence for a violent crime.
• written by Shaun Attwood
• Between the Bars, a blog platform for prisoners in the United States without internet access
• , written by Maurice Clarett while in prison in Ohio, 2008-2010
• Running in Place written by Charlie Engle, serving 21-month sentence in Beaver, West Virginia, for mortgage fraud, 2011–present
• , written by Justin Paperny while in the privately managed Taft Federal Prison Camp, California, 2008-2009
• , blog written by various inmates in the Federal prison system, including highly influential gang-leaders and those held in solitary confinement, Current
• , written by current and former participants, 2012–present
• Chelsea Manning's blog
• , blog written by Pyerse Dandridge based on his prison camp journal he wrote in Herlong Federal Prison Camp 2011-2012 and his life after incarceration.
• About Prison Camp Life