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Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul...

Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul brought out feelings and emotions I forgot I had. It had a positive influence on me and helped give me a sense of hope, self-esteem and empowerment in finding new ways to live successfully.

Edward Smith
inmate

As a wife of an incarcerated man, I found strength in the human race. When this part of my life started, I never thought I would make it through this. These stories from these authors show inmates are still humans. Chicken Soup for the PrisonersSoul helped me feel like there is still hope for the future.

Jennifer Skaggs
an inmates wife

The heartwarming stories in Chicken Soup for the PrisonersSoul put faces on those who are incarcerated, their loved ones and those who minister to them. Their positive strides as illustrated in this book will touch the reader and linger long after the last page is turned.

Lana Robertson Hayes
educator

Gripping insight into the triumphant spirit of the human soul in the most dismal of circumstances. These uplifting stories remind me of many inmates I met and dealt with during my fathers twenty-year tenure as a warden. I heartily endorse this book for all readers.

William J. Buchanan
author of Execution Eve

Reading these stories has reinforced my belief that there is a part within every one of us which delights in contributing to the spiritual well-being of others.

Allen Nagy, Ph.D.
mental health professional
author, How to Raise Your Childs Emotional Intelligence

These stories filled my heart with love. Chicken Soup for thePrisoners Soul helps people in the mainstream realize that there are also good people inside prison.

Frank Milano
prisoner

There is much to be learned from these stories of adversity and from the growth that comes from working through pain. For those of us lucky enough to not know such suffering firsthand, these testimonials are a great gift.

Susan Sarandon
Academy Award-winner
(Dead Man Walking)

Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul provides that essential element of hope that is so needed by all of our free and non-free souls.

J. Michael Quinlan
president, Corrections Corporation of America
former director, Federal Bureau of Prisons

This book should be in every cell nationwide. It is sure to heal hearts and uplift spirits, as well as offer important practical guidance to prisoners everywhere. Thank you for putting together this invaluable resource.

Robin Casarjian
author, Houses of Healing: A Prisoners Guide to
Inner Power and Freedom

Through these moving and entertaining stories, we are given clear pictures of how lives are changed and redirected toward success and fulfillment.

Grady Jim Robinson
speaker and author, Did I Ever Tell You About the Time?

While reading a story from this book to my ninth-grade at-risk youths, our vice-principal unexpectedly stepped into the classroom for a brief visit. Later she said, I was stunned at how quiet the students were for you. I said, Ann, they were quiet because they were listening to a letter from a father they all wished they had.

Sue Billington-Wade
educator

This book should be required reading for all high school students. I also encourage every teacher to read this book as a way of showing that they too can make a difference in the lives of their students.

Ernie Savage
director of chapel ministries Okinawa, Japan

These stories make people wake up and see that people incarcerated are human beings with feelings... and not just convicts.

Cindy Wilhite
loved one

This book, along with good programs in our prison systems, can be a ripple toward the healing of the soul.

Cata Low
Avatar trainer

It is of utmost importance to remember prison inmates as sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts.

Rev. Hugh J. Daley
chaplain

Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul shares a nourishing recipe of support and insightful reflection. Reading this book is time well spent. The best thing is you do not have to be in jail to enjoy it. Violence ends where love begins. Join in the Cell-Liberation and share it with a friend.

Tom Duffy
executive program director
Prison SMART Foundation Incorporated

By reading these stories, we can gain the insight and knowledge necessary to learn more about not only prison inmates who are often not forgiven, but about ourselves.

Kim Raiani
volunteer who visits death-row inmates

Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul is a warm collection of testimonials that speak to the good in each of us and remind us of our membership in the human family.

Jim Mustin
president, Family and Corrections Network

Chicken Soup for the Prisoners Soul gives voices to the men, women and children incarcerated in silence. Its mere presence in the public eye is a conscious wake-up call that prisoners do have souls.

Penny Rayfield
founder, C-Cubed Institute

This book helps all those involved with someone who has been incarcerated to keep their vision of faith and success.

Elizabeth Sabo
Designing Success

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
PRISONERS SOUL

101 Stories to Open the Heart
and Rekindle the Spirit of
Hope, Healing and Forgiveness

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Tom Lagana

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

Contents

Robert Fuentes

Ken Duke MonseBroten

Willie B. Raborn

Thomas Ann Hines

Lou Torok

Kimberly Raymer

R. L. Todd

Ron Ambrosia

George Castillo

Linda Reeves

G. Ashanti Witherspoon

John M. Reynolds

Ken Duke MonseBroten

Ken Duke MonseBroten

John W. Gillette Jr.

Christine Money

George M. Roth

R. Troy Bridges

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

Lucy Serna Killebrew

Kenneth L. Bonner

Dan Millstein

Dan Millstein

Rod Carter

Jerry Gillies

Gordon Graham

Chaplain Dick Swan

Judge Bob Downing

Tony Webb

Toni Carter

Colleen Fiant

Douglas Burgess

Candy Abbott

Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ

Andre T. Jackson

Charles W. Colson

Efrain Frank Hernandez