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The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. --Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking|9781928706311|, "An absolutely compelling story of an astonishing treatment program with prison inmates that, against all odds, actually worked. . . . Should reshape the ideas of all of us, policy makers and citizens alike." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author, No Ordinary Time, "[An] extraordinarily telling and inspiring book, its contents a witness to the human connection achieved. . . . Jenny Phillips manages to enable the far off, the imprisoned, to become the reader's informants and teachers." —Robert Coles, from the book's foreword, "An absolutely compelling story of an astonishing treatment program with prison inmates that, against all odds, actually worked. . . . Should reshape the ideas of all of us, policy makers and citizens alike." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author, No Ordinary Time, "One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change, and potential vehicles for institutional health. . . . Points to an effective reentry program for even the most serious offenders." -Scott Harshbarger, former attorney general, Massachusetts; 30 years as a public prosecutor, defender, and civil rights lawyer, "[An] extraordinarily telling and inspiring book, its contents a witness to the human connection achieved. . . . Jenny Phillips manages to enable the far off, the imprisoned, to become the reader's informants and teachers." --Robert Coles, from the book's foreword, The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. -Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking|9781928706311|, "An absolutely compelling story of an astonishing treatment program with prison inmates that, against all odds, actually worked. . . . Should reshape the ideas of all of us, policy makers and citizens alike." -Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author,No Ordinary Time, The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. —Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking|9781928706311|, "[An] extraordinarily telling and inspiring book, its contents a witness to the human connection achieved. . . . Jenny Phillips manages to enable the far off, the imprisoned, to become the reader's informants and teachers." -Robert Coles, from the book's foreword, The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. --Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking|9781928706311|, "An absolutely compelling story of an astonishing treatment program with prison inmates that, against all odds, actually worked. . . . Should reshape the ideas of all of us, policy makers and citizens alike." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author, No Ordinary Time, "[An] extraordinarily telling and inspiring book, its contents a witness to the human connection achieved. . . . Jenny Phillips manages to enable the far off, the imprisoned, to become the reader's informants and teachers." --Robert Coles, from the book's foreword, The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. -Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking