Prison Author Josh Chaffin 2026
Type. Tune. Tint.November 11, 202600:32:45

Prison Author Josh Chaffin 2026

Josh Chaffin is serving a 70-year sentence for crimes he committed when he was 20. Now, he's 42, has served 20 years, and has another 50 to go unless he gets clemency. Fourteen years ago, he discovered that writing, learning, and American history were his passions. He's written seven screenplays, two of which have placed highly in contests, and he's become something of a constitutional and presidential scholar, all while serving time in a maximum-security prison. His creative enabler on the outside, his wife Vicki, transcribes his handwritten manuscripts into digital pages for upload to Amazon and other venues. Their love connection, separated by prison bars and 400 miles, is a story of dedication and hard work that both hope will support their case that he has evolved into a better man who deserves to be released from prison before age 92.