The Felonist is a serialized memoir built from real prison journals written at Rikers, Bedford, Albion, and Danbury. Each episode weaves multiple entries into an unfiltered portrait of traumatic emotional collapse, personal reckoning, faith, motherhood, addiction, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding a self from the inside out — all while incarcerated. It’s a raw, intimate archive of survival, accountability, and the quiet hope that endures even in the darkest chapters. Contains explicit language and descriptions of incarceration, mental health struggles, addiction, and trauma.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Felonist is a serialized memoir built from real prison journals written at Rikers, Bedford, Albion, and Danbury. Each episode weaves multiple entries into an unfiltered portrait of traumatic emotional collapse, personal reckoning, faith, motherhood, addiction, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding a self from the inside out, all while incarcerated.
Recent episodes include "Prayer and Contemplation" (15 July 2026, 28 minutes), "Everything Means Something or Nothing Means Anything" (15 July 2026, 27 minutes), and "Merry Christmas, Here's Your Divorce" (8 July 2026, 18 minutes).
The Felonist publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 55 episodes.
Booking probability for The Felonist is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Felonist requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Felonist's contact route on record: verified email.
The Felonist is a society podcast with 55 episodes published.
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Episode #52
In mid‑January at Albion, the Felonist turns inward. As snow piles up and the dorm quiets, she begins a deep spiritual excavation shaped by Merton, Nouwen, Brother Lawrence, Rohr, Rolheiser, and the Cloud of Unknowing...
The new year opens inside Albion with broken phones, freezing weather, and a Felonist who’s changing whether she wants to or not. As she rewrites her book, trims away old stories, and stands her ground in the unit, she...
Episode #50
The last days of December settle over Albion with a heavy, exhausted quiet. After weeks of chaos and heartbreak, the Felonist turns inward — rereading her journal, confronting the grip of pride, covetousness, and...
Episode #48
December in a women’s prison is its own kind of violence,and that December in Albion is just horrible. In this episode, the Felonist reminds everyone exactly why she’s called the White Martha Stewart Bitch — sharp...
Episode #48
The Felonist descends into a fierce stretch of spiritual wrestling, filling her journal with pages from Julian of Norwich, Bonhoeffer, Rohr, the catechism, and every scrap of wisdom she can scrape from the silence. She...
Episode #47
A long stretch of November days unfolds in fragments — coffee, cold air, chapel, work, letters, interviews, apples, snow, and the constant ache of missing the people who once formed the center of her life. The Felonist...
Episode #44
A stretch of days at Albion turns deeply inward as the Felonist immerses herself in Richard Rohr, Anne Lamott, Iyanla Vanzant, and Thich Nhat Hanh, filling her journal with the ideas that begin reshaping her...
Episode #43
In this episode, the Felonist moves through agrinding stretch of Albion life marked by sleepless nights, snoring dorms, denied programs, IRS visits, head colds, and the constant ache of missing her daughter. She studies...
Episode #44
In this episode, The Felonist moves through three weeksdefined by two words that echo again and again in her Albion journals: sad and tired. The emotional landscape is anything but quiet — it’s a storm of homesickness...
Episode #43
As the Felonist settles deeper into life at Albion, she wrestles with the meaning of love — how to practice it, protect it, and survive it inside a women’s prison. Between reading Thomas Merton and Corinthians...
Episode #42
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...
Episode #41
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 stay connected to Grace and navigate the...
Episode #37
<p>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 these days dissecting every...
Episode #40
<p>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 get attention or get moved. That’s coping. But if...
Episode #38
<p>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 being moved to another prison far away, the anniversary...
Episode #37
<p>The days take on a strange clarity here, as if everything is arriving in a deliberate sequence—books that echo one another, letters that land at the exact moment I need them, conversations that fold into a larger...
Episode #36
<p>In this episode, I leave RCOD for the back buildings, and the world shifts in ways only someone who has lived confinement can understand. These entries capture the shock of small objects and even smaller freedoms — a...
Episode #35
<p>These entries capture the moment when the core — the truest part of me — rose back to the surface, and the current — the force of surrender — began to guide me instead of fear. In The Core and the Current, I start to...
Episode #34
<p>In this episode, I return to July 4th weekend in 2014 — the first time I saw Grace after more than nine months apart. The anticipation, the quiet morning, the scripting of what to tell her, the tension with Bill, and...
Episode #33
<p>Season Two begins with my first days at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility — a place that felt nothing like Rikers. The bus ride was hot, the intake was exhausting, but the moment I arrived, something in me lifted...
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