Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave….

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home ….

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also ….

Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to m….

That's very indicative to me of one of the things that really creates an aversion for me about having a child - this idea that every decision you mak….

If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences ….

Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality t….

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you..

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand..

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to ….

I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wa….