FROM THE INSIDE is our column written by Marina Bueno.
Every month we follow Marina’s journey on her search for moments of hope, peace and meaning behind bars.
FROM THE INSIDE has been organized in collaboration with the non-profit EXCHANGE FOR CHANGE. Exchange for Change teaches writing in prisons and our new column will feature writing from incarcerated students.
Marina Bueno is a Cuban-Russian immigrant that was raised in sunny South Florida. She’s been published in Prisoner Express, Prison Journalism Project and Scalawag. When not obsessively jotting down ideas and stressing her editor, she enjoys reading science and fantasy fiction, taking long walks on the recreation field with service dogs in training, and peer pressuring her fellow residents in prison to take Exchange for Change courses. She’s been incarcerated for 15 years and has a huge backlog of journals from which to pull material for her column From the Inside.
On this page you will also find columns by our previous FROM THE INSIDE columnist Ryan M. Moser.
PREVIOUS COLUMNS
From the Inside
Marina Bueno on the precious minutes of connection and freedom with her family on the phone
From the Inside
Marina Bueno on moving past guilt to rehabilitation and finding family behind bars
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Marina Bueno on corresponding with the outside world and past lives and the power of friendship behind bars
From the Inside
Our new FROM THE INSIDE columnist Marina Bueno on confinement in prison and the ripple effect of an act of brutality or kindness
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Ryan M. Moser on reflecting back on his time in prison as he moves towards life on the outside
From the Inside
Ryan M. Moser on the gift of connection with loved ones though technology from behind bars
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Ryan M. Moser on the great leveller that is prison and finding the common good in the worst of places
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Ryan M. Moser on an addict and con-man, a fake diamond ring and a unsuspecting salesperson
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Ryan M. Moser on the unique and difficult challenges that change creates in prison
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Ryan M. Moser on rememberings from the inside, of times easier and harder
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Ryan M. Moser on the vital role of inmate.com as a carrier of information among prisoners
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Ryan M. Moser on finding both a purpose in life and a creative community behind bars
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Ryan M. Moser on the limbo that is prison and imagining change in the outside world
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Ryan M. Moser on photos as time-machines to the past and as connection with the outside world
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Ryan M. Moser on finding true friendship behind bars
