Jennifer Gonnerman closes Life on the Outside by recounting her subject’s recurring dream. In it, Elaine Bartlett returns triumphant, decked out in her finest outfit, to Bedford Hills Correctional ...

The New Yorker takes a long, hard look at Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in its October 29th issue. Staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman’s lengthy piece on Krasner was published on the ...

Village Voice staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman’s book, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction yesterday. Life ...

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Jennifer Gonnerman is the author of *Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett*, which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. She is a contributing writer at *Mother Jones ...

The appalling statistics of America’s incarceration industry are a staple of prison nonfiction, and Jennifer Gonnerman’s bracingly compassionate, quietly outraged Life on the Outside is no exception.

Our nation’s two-decade spree of building prisons and sentencing even nonviolent criminals to long spells inside them has produced a staggering number of incarcerated people in America–more than By ...

I was impressed by Jennifer Gonnerman’s article about the Teamsters and UPS (“The Total Package,” January 16th). I started working part time for UPS at the age of eighteen, and now, twenty-eight years ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jennifer Gonnerman is a Contributing Writer for the Mother Jones Magazine with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Forum as a Correspondent ...