: Re: Capitalization after use of colon? This is a sentence from a current writing project detailing how people in jail feel about reading. It provides an escape from the reality of what lies before

Lots of opinions here, but let's look to a higher authority. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the word after a colon is lowercase, even if it starts a complete sentence, unless it's a proper noun.

The exception is when the colon introduces multiple sentences or when it introduces speech.

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