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“This prison doesn’t matter,” says Larry, referring to the prison of concrete and steel. Breaking out of habitual patterns of self-destructive thinking can be more damaging and more difficult to break out of. How did Larry break those chains, with the help of Shakespeare?
Laura Bates • Shakespeare Saved My Life: An Uplifting Memoir for Anyone Who Has Been Changed by a Book
Women, Writing, and Prison: Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out (It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing)
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These moments at the jail are sobering journeys into human hearts, through electric doors and the barriers produced by human pain. Jail is a place where a word can land you in isolation, where a sucker punch can be right around the corner, where grinding loneliness and only momentary flashes of hope exist, and where bitterness about life is worn
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
About 15 minutes into the interrogation at the scene, Officer Garcia - I still remember him - knowing my mental state of panic and realization of reality, said to me "You know, when I was your age I did the same thing, and I was forgiven and let go. So what I'm going to do is forgive you and let you go this time. Go home, and don't ever do this... See more
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