
Chapter 5 “The Big House” β historic Lewisburg Prison a.k.a. “Mafia Row”
September 8, 2024It’s no spoiler to reveal that my true crime memoir Chained Birds is also part exposΓ© of the horrific experimental prison program that operated at Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg Prison from 2009-2018. One of the book’s main characters, federal inmate Kevin Sanders, was my inside source who helped me chronicle the cruelty and bloodshed inside Lewisburg as ...
Carla Conti is a true crime journalist, storyteller, and prison reform advocate. Her debut book, Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir of Justice, Survival and Redemption Behind Bars, is out now with WildBlue Press.