"Journalists continue to face imprisonment for practicing their profession in ways that antagonize regimes, militaries, oligarchs, and other powerful interests. What do journalists do after their release from prison? Do they resume their professional work in their home country or in exile? How do they cope psychologically? And how does the prison experience reshape their approach to journalism and views on the journalistic mission? To help answer those questions, I interviewed eight journalists who’d been jailed for periods of two weeks to more than two years by some of the world’s most repressitarian regimes—Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Syria. Each journalist has a unique tale to tell, but common threads emerge from their interviews." (Abstract)