CONVICTION focuses on the turmoil experienced by accused and convicted persons. Writing of the horrendous ordeal the author underwent following a 2016 criminal trial - a trial that he lost - this prison memoir explores the author's emotions and experiences during a five-month stay at an upstate New York county jail. It is a work supplemented by the insights of philosophers and historical figures whose books the author read from his jail cell while awaiting sentence. Analyzing the concepts of anguish, shame, redemption, happiness, dependency, love, and faith, CONVICTION is work of philosophy permeated from the prisoner perspective. The work will appeal to academics of every stripe, as well everyday men and women particularly inmates and their families searching for meaning into their suffering.