The Mirror in My Cell

Portia and I spoke a lot about freedom. That didn't happen because we'd experienced it being taken away, but our shared search for internal, personal freedom. Portia was sentenced to seven years in ...

4 Tammi 202558min

He strayed from the path. About as far as robbery and a police chase can take you . In prison Islam returned to him, and showed him a better way forwards. -------------------------------------------...

24 Joulu 202439min

From the time he understood his sexuality, he knew he was an outsider. Ryan told me he could barely feel anything, let alone regret. Sitting in his cell, incapable of even absorbing that he was go...

14 Joulu 20241h 9min

She got a phone call at around midnight. I had been arrested in Belarus. What for? Drugs trafficking, caught with a gram of marijuana on the border. Over the course of months she was masterminding ho...

4 Joulu 202459min

Qasim is the CEO of Rizq, an organisation fighting food insecurity and redistribution across South Asia, partnering with huge multinationals in the process. Qasim was mistakenly arrested after wide s...

24 Marras 20241h

Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator and writer. She is brave, tender and honest. In 2020 she participated in demonstrations against the rigged Belarusian election and was arrested. After h...

15 Marras 202446min

I was arrested in late 2023, crossing the Belarusian border with 1.3 grams of marijuana in my raincoat. Part II of Article 328 prescribed I would spend the next 3 - 7 years in prison. From living a fr...

15 Marras 202421min

This is the Mirror in My Cell - a conversation series borne from those who have confronted incarceration. When facing darkness head on, they saw a portal into identity, society and spirit. Join Thomas...

14 Marras 20242min