Jesus Hopped the A Train at University of Texas at El Paso

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Authors

• Stephen Adly Guirgis

Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who is incarcerated and awaiting trial for shooting a cult leader. Very nearly disillusioned public defender Mary Jane Hanrahan is persuaded to champion Angel's cause by his heartfelt, convincing arguments. Beaten regularly by the other inmates, Angel is transferred to a special twenty-three-hour lockdown wing of protective custody. For one hour a day, Angel experiences daylight from a cage on the Riker's Island Prison roof. His only source of human contact is the lone inmate who is also in protective custody. Lucius Jenkins, a.k.a. "the Black Plague," works out furiously in the cage next to Angel. A sociopathic serial killer awaiting extradition to Florida, Lucius pauses from his workouts only to "save" Angel. Lucius Jenkins has found God, and Angel's life and the course of his trial will be changed forever.