One Day In The Life Of 179212: Notes from an American Prison - Softcover

Jens Soering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159056345X ISBN 13: 9781590563458

Publisher: Lantern Books, 2013

Synopsis

To a correctional facility in Virginia he is known as Prisoner 179212. But to a legion of journalists and legal reform activists he is Jens Soering, a German citizen who has endured, for the past twenty-six years, the harshest and most unforgiving punishment the USA can offer a life sentence without realistic hope of release, which some refer to as "the other death penalty."

Told with dry humour, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF 179212 provides an hour-by-hour survey of everyday life in an American medium-security facility with all of its attendant hardships, contradictions and even revelations. Soering poignantly illustrates the importance of meditation and faith when confronted with extreme adversity, in addition to making a highly compelling case for prison reform. Although this inspiring, eloquent memoir recounts just a day in the life of one man, much like Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, it provides a powerful voice for the over two million men and women lost in the maze of America's prison-industrial complex.

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About the Author

Jens Soering is a German citizen and Centering Prayer practitioner who has been incarcerated since 1986. His work has been featured in Christianity Today, The Christian Century, Sojourners, America, National Catholic Reporter and The American Conservative. His book The Convict Christ: What the Gospel Says about Criminal Justice was the first place winner of the Catholic Press Association's 2007 awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159056345X
• ISBN 13: 9781590563458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176