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Reginald Stephens

I am a 60-year-old Black man. I have served ten years of a 16-to-life sentence. The center of legal problems was addiction. I am ten years clean. I am a tutor for the Hudson Link College program. I like to think of myself as an essayist, but also write poetry, fiction, and am working on a memoir. I am a progressive thinker.

2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Essay for “From the Sidelines“

Articles by Reginald Stephens

Prison and Justice Writing

Wednesday September 7

From the Sidelines

Reginald Stephens was awarded an Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Essay in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population. I find myself