Quentin Lewis: Jailhouse Lawyer, Poet, Fighting His Wrongful Conviction [Part 4]

Quentin Lewis has been incarcerated since he was 16. He's now 45 and an inmate at Wende Correctional Facility in upstate NY. He earned his G.E.D. and an Associates Degree in prison. He's been fighting a wrongful conviction since 2001. Students at Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva are assisting with his case. Quentin is certified as law clerk in the prison system.

Read his article in the New York Times here.

Read Quentin's poem below.

Jailhouse Lawyer, by Quentin Lewis

You not a Jailhouse Lawyer

Unless you won a case

Stop sitting on the sideline

Looking out of place

You sitting down at Chowtime

Looking at your plate

Like wait

How I'm gone get out From behind this gate