Hosted by The Felonist · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 46 episodes
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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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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 q
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 d
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 understandin
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
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, s
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, homesickn
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
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 uni
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 though
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 you’re e
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 of m
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 pattern
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 pen
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 see
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 the
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. Bedf
For this Felonist Friday, I’m opening the archive. At the end of the Rikers Diaries — and throughout the Bedford Diaries — I kept talking about my Rule of Prayer, and this week I finally found the original documents: the
In Up and Out: On My Way to Bedford Women’s Correctional Facility, the Felonist steps into the final, disorienting hours of her Rikers chapter—packing up her belongings, organizing her prayers and “guidelines,” and prepa
The Felonist finally confronts the collapse she has been circling for months and names it for what it is: a failure so total it strips away every illusion of control, competence, and self‑protection. This episode traces
In Becoming Other – But What Exactly?, the Felonist enters the most liminal chapter of her Rikers journey—the moment where she can no longer return to who she was, but cannot yet see who she is becoming. Through raw jour
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