Stories that reach beyond walls.
A living collection from the people and ideas connected to the master’s programs at Sing Sing and Bedford Hills.
Memoirs, studies, guides and reported accounts — the program told and analyzed first-hand.
MPS chapter inside “(E)Limi(na)ting Pain, Embracing Belonging – What Would Justice Look Like?” — Mujahideen Muhammad & Paul Cortez
Drawing on empirical science and lived prison experience, Coppola argues that belonging is the true measure of punishment, and charts a path toward humanized justice.
Francois reads policing and prison through the eyes of a criminalized Galilean and the voices of the incarcerated, calling readers to an activism of public love.
Lennon, a journalist serving time, examines four guilty men, himself included, to question how true crime tells stories of violence, punishment, and redemption.
The screenplay of the acclaimed A24 film about Sing Sing's Rehabilitation Through the Arts program — story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John "Divine G" Whitfield.
Journalist Dan Slepian's twenty-year fight to free six innocent men from New York prisons, a story also told in The Sing Sing Chronicles.
A practical guide to financial literacy for people who are incarcerated: budgeting, credit, saving, and investing to build wealth before and after release.
MPS chapter inside “Preparing the World to Receive Them: Successful Hiring and Retention of Legal System-Impacted People in the Field of Higher Education in Prison” — Sean Pica (MPS alumnus) & Lila McDowell
The first global state-of-the-field overview of education in prisons: history, leadership, creative writing, abolition, faith, and learning after release.
Ferguson's journey from prison to the pulpit: how anger at injustice became fuel for ministry, preaching, and teaching in the Sing Sing master's program.
A treatise on the liberation theology of the incarcerated, arguing for liberative justice and the abolition of the carceral system from a theological perspective.
Francois offers six spiritual practices to move Christians beyond silence and inaction on racism, toward courageous speech and lasting work for racial justice.
Reflective essays for returning citizens, offering encouragement, faith, and practical wisdom for the journey home after incarceration.
A study of evangelism and ministry behind the walls of America's maximum security prisons, written by an MPS graduate from direct experience of faith inside.
A longtime Catholic chaplain at Sing Sing recounts decades of ministry, finding God, grace, and friendship among the men inside one of America's most notorious prisons.
A practical manual for ministers of every denomination, with services, prayers, and guidance for leading both in the pulpit and in public life.
Miranda, coordinator of the NYTS program at Sing Sing, offers a new approach to personal growth and rehabilitation, drawn from his own journey.
The sequel to 15 to Life: Papa's life after clemency, rebuilding as an artist and leading the fight against the drug war and the laws that took twelve years from him.
Essays on how faith, education, and healing transform lives in American prisons, including a chapter on the master's program at Sing Sing as a path to shalom.
Practitioners and scholars map a way forward for ministries serving prisoners, returning citizens, and the families and children left behind.
An interfaith guide for congregations to become healing communities, welcoming people affected by incarceration with justice balanced by mercy.
MPS chapter inside “New York Theological Seminary Prison Program: Sing-Sing Correctional Facility—Our Context” — 17 MPS students
A reader on racism, criminal justice, and law, gathering voices on how incarceration disenfranchises Black communities, with an essay on the NYTS program at Sing Sing.
Sentenced to 15 years to life under the Rockefeller drug laws, Papa discovered painting in Sing Sing. His self-portrait at the Whitney led to clemency and a life of advocacy.
MPS chapter inside “Religion Class at Sing Sing Prison” — Victoria Lee Erickson & H. Dean Trulear
A sweeping portrait of religious life across New York City, from storefront churches to temples, including a chapter on teaching a religion class inside Sing Sing.
Wallis lays out a practical vision of faith in action, showing how communities of faith can overcome poverty and injustice, including his work with the Sing Sing program.
Snyder traces how the Protestant work ethic shaped America's punitive impulse, and calls the church toward a theology of grace rather than retribution.
Chapman traces African American religious thought before and after Black Power, as Black thinkers put Christianity itself on trial.
Webber tells the story of New York Theological Seminary — from its start as a Bible college to its turn to the city, and to Sing Sing, as a classroom for ministry.
Webber pictures the church as a community of exiles and pilgrims, called to faithful witness while living in tension with the surrounding culture.
Webber argues that the urban church must reorganize itself around mission, building new structures to serve the people and struggles of the city.
Webber's account of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, a church living among the poor and committed to the life of its neighborhood.
Novels, short stories and verse by the writers who lived the story.
Short stories of law and justice, written as Easy Waters: tales of crime, courtroom dilemmas, and the moral knots that tie together the accused, the accuser, and the system.
Poems written in what Waters calls the black blood of poetry: verse rooted in African American struggle, faith, and survival, carrying the rhythms of the street and the pulpit.
An action-packed street tale from Divine G, whose life story was told in the Oscar-nominated film Sing Sing.
A fast-paced thriller with a twist of time, from the Sing Sing author whose writing and theater work inspired the film Sing Sing.
A gritty urban novel, written as Easy Waters, following young men caught between loyalty and survival on streets where anger and violence can decide a life in seconds.
A poetry collection celebrating Black women: their strength, beauty, grief, and resilience, written as tribute and as reckoning with how the world has seen them.
Divine G's story of a woman nicknamed Baby Doll, navigating love, danger, and survival in a world that underestimates her.
A love story from Divine G, the Sing Sing writer whose life inspired the film: romance tested by secrets, desire, and the puzzle of the human heart.
The sequel to Money-Grip: the stakes rise as the fight for power and money pulls every player deeper into danger.
An urban crime novel about the hustle and the grip of money, where ambition and loyalty collide on the streets of New York.
A romance of devotion and second chances, as two people discover that no other love can take the place of the one they share.
Poems that question who wears the hat of hero or villain, turning a sharp, searching eye on policing, justice, and the moral ambiguity of power on both sides of the bars.
A crime novel set in Brooklyn's Canarsie, where a criminal network and the people caught inside it come to a reckoning.
An epic poem in which Waters, writing from inside, looks back through history and memory at Black life in America, weighing the shadows of the past against the distorted mirror of the present.
