Can Prisons and Prisoners Be Saved?

It has been said that America houses more of its citizenry behind bars than any other nation on the planet. In a land where "freedom" has been the talisman of millions, we now see an alarming decay in our justice and corrections system. After 40 years of almost full-time volunteer charity work, Swanson became a teacher/mentor at a maximum security state prison in Central Florida and brings us behind the gun towers and razor wire which most journalists never have the opportunity to see. She taught-without a guard-murderers, rapists, drug lords, burglars, many of whom were in prison for life. In a piercing exposA(c), Swanson dissects the machination of an American legal apparatus that all too often cages and executes innocent men and women. Through the life stories of five Florida convicts, she leads us through the soul-numbing quagmire of human despair... and out into a discovered realm where faith becomes the saving grace. Can prisons and prisoners be saved? The answer to that question lies deep within the pages of this book