The Prison Minyan

Welcome to Otisville, America’s only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace.

‘Erudite, trenchant and touching’- Michael Arditti

'Delectable... glorious... this most cherishably Jewish of books.' - Jewish Chronicle

The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by a rabbi who's a fellow convict. As the o...