I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement
The New York Times, March 25, 2021: I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement
“Mr. Manuel is an author, activist and poet. When he was 14 years old, he was sentenced to life in prison with no parole and spent 18 years in solitary confinement. His forthcoming memoir, ‘My Time Will Come,’ details these experiences.”
Additional reading:
Ian Manuel’s My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption on bookshop.org
The New York Times, December 13, 2014: A Shooter, His Victim and Race
”Ian Manuel is a black man who has spent most of his life in prison. Yet he still has a most unusual advocate calling for his release: a white woman whom he met when he shot her in the face.”
Tampa Bay Times, May 17, 2010: In Ian’s World
”When he was 13 years old Ian Manuel shot a woman in the face in a botched robbery in Tampa. She lived and he got life. Manuel, now 33, has spent nearly all of his time in prison in solitary confinement, caught in an endless cycle of misbehavior and punishment. As Florida's longest-serving inmate in solitary, he has no work skills, no formal education and so much psychological damage that he once set himself on fire.”
