Discusses problems relating to prisons, examines the controversy of whether prisons should rehabilitate or punish, and looks at possible alternatives to the current prison system.

Mobster Michael Franzese had it all-money, power, prestige. Then he did the unthinkable. He quit the mob. Find out how and why Michael did what no one else managed to do--and live.

This book looks at prison conditions and the American criminal justice system to help readers gain a deeper understanding of how prisoners are treated, while weighing what some argue are necessary changes to today's prisons.

"The wrenching, and inspiring, story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's greatest contemporary legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing)...

Follows the participation of survivors of violent crimes and prisoners in San Quentin for murder in the Victim Offender Education Group, which helps prisoners to understand how their past traumas contribute to their criminality and the impact their crimes have on their victims.