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The podcast Mississippi prison officials don’t want you to hear
A month or so after the launch of “Hidden Mirrors,” a unique podcast about an inmate book club at Mississippi’s Wilkinson County Correctional Facility…
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Violence, revenge: different causes, outcomes
What happens when combat veterans sit down to talk with violent offenders about books
Nov 13, 2025
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New author website
Coinciding with launch of Hidden Mirrors podcast, a new iteration of alanhuffman.com
Nov 11, 2025
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Joseph Spring, at large
Jul 20, 2023
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What happened at Madison Square Garden
Oct 30, 2024
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Finding evidence on the fly
Aug 20, 2024
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Spanish war dogs
Feb 16, 2024
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The busy bee
Jul 21, 2023
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The redoubtable Bob Herndon, who at age 89 piloted his glider into the lily pads of Pelahatchie Bay
Jun 4, 2024
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One of the main characters in Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda is a sadistic headmistress at an English prep school named Miss Agatha Trunchbull, who enjoys…
Nov 9, 2025
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'Hidden Mirrors' prison book club podcast to launch Oct. 15
As I’ve written about here, I’ve been facilitating a prison book club for more than a year at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility, near…
Sep 30, 2025
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This time, he did not escape
For anyone familiar with Joseph Wesley Spring’s criminal history, which includes a notorious escape from the Hinds County, Mississippi jail in 2023…
Aug 26, 2025
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For a minute, Joseph Spring was free again
Part 15 in a series: Spring was again arrested on April 24, 2025; unclear how he got out of prison
Aug 25, 2025
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Katrina, 20 years on: Who can you turn to when everything falls apart?
Sometimes, what happened is just the beginning
Aug 20, 2025
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Deeper into the realm
The launch of What Happened, in the summer of 2023, was a response to local news reports about an escaped Hinds County, Mississippi jail inmate – one in…
Jul 22, 2025
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The case of the Segovia aqueduct
Most of us have experienced the odd coincidence: After a conversation about an obscure topic, seemingly in private, we notice ads or promoted sites in…
Jun 9, 2025
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