Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Awyn Dawn, author of the new Paganism for Prisoners.
People ask me a lot of questions about prison. What was it like? Were you really in prison? Was it weird to go back in as a volunteer? While many of these questions (and others) are answered in my book, Paganism for Prisoners: Connecting to the Magic Within, I still felt it poignant to open the discussion around what it is like to be a previously incarcerated pagan living within the world.
The first thing to understand is that ANYBODY is one wrong decision from jail or prison. I'll be the first to admit that my incarceration was a result of many years of bad decisions that piled up until