JEREMY BUSBY is a prison writer and activist who has served nearly 25 years of a 75-year sentence for a homicide he maintains was committed in self-defense. Since entering prison, he has earned college degrees, served as a certified Peer Health Educator, a TDCJ Chaplaincy Volunteer Worship Leader, a GED and college tutor, and a member of Toastmasters America. In addition to being the first Black staff writer in the history of Texas prison newspaper The ECHO, Busby has published writings with the Houston Chronicle, Crime Report, Marshall Project, Minutes Before Six, and Solitary Watch. He has frequently been placed in solitary confinement as retaliation for his activism and writing.