Still doing life : 22 lifers, 25 years later / Howard Zehr and Barb Toews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zehr, Howard, author, photographer.

Toews, Barb, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life imprisonment--Pennsylvania.

Life imprisonment.

Prisoners--Pennsylvania--Interviews.

Prisoners.

Women prisoners--Pennsylvania--Interviews.

Women prisoners.

African American prisoners--Pennsylvania--Interviews.

African American prisoners.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

interviews.

Interviews.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xii, 190 pages : portraits ; 25 cm

Other Title:

22 lifers, 25 years later

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: You have come to a point where you believe goodness feels better than the pain you have endured / Kimerly Joynes

Hope, the echo in my brain, keeps me stimulated / Charles Diggs

Meeting with the victim's family was the best thing / Craig Datesman

Getting through one day at a time / Marilyn Dobrolenski

This is our community, but it's not our home / Commer Glass

I always believed I was getting out

I just didn't know when / Brian Wallace

You aren't the only one being punished

your family is too / Marie Scott

People care

you just have to cross paths with them / Ricardo Mercado

I've always felt like a tightrope walker / Betty Heron

I've learned that no matter where you are, you always have to give back / Bruce Norris

I took a life, now I try to save lives / Yvonne Cloud

I pray every day for the victim and his family / Joseph Miller

You have to have a dream in life / Aaron Fox

I'm running out of things to do / Diane Weaver

I struggle with keeping my humanity / Bruce Bainbridge

Everything we do has a purpose / Hugh Williams

We can draw from the first life and see our mistakes / Harry Twiggs

Seeking that inner peace / Gaye Morley

It's part of my spirit to help people / Kevin Mines

I was in a prison of my own mind / James Taylor

If you let your crime define you, you will never see your potential / Cyd Berger

The meaning of life is to try to live it to its fullest, regardless of where you're at / John Frederick Nole

This is like the first fruit that I've ever had, and it's quite delicious.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Photographs and interviews of people serving life sentences in prison, separated by a quarter century"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781620976487

162097648X

OCLC:

1261362450