POLITICO A Journalist Who Spent Time Behind Bars Dishes on How He Rebuilt His Life A revealing Q&A conversation about life after prison — by a journalist still serving time at Sullivan Correctional Facility. Lawrence Bartley at his home in Connecticut. | Christine Breslin for Politico By JOHN J. LENNON Link Copied John J. Lennon is a contributing editor for Esquire and a contributing writer for The Marshall Project. His 2018 story for Esquire was a National Magazine Award finalist in feature writing. The next year, he contributed a feature essay to The Washington Post Magazine’s prison issue which won the National Magazine Award in single topic issue. He is on his twentieth year of incarceration, currently in Sullivan Correctional Facility, in Fallsburg, New York, and will be eligible for parole in 2029.