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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Letters to a Lifer: The Boy 'Never to be Released'

Letters to a Lifer: The Boy 'Never to be Released'

Sanford, Cindy
Bishop, Jeanne

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral ChristianityGeneral Law

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1909976156
ISBN13: 9781909976153
Publisher: Waterside Prod
Published: Jan 21 2015
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Letters to a Lifer provides a rare insight into life without parole (LWOP) for juveniles. A true story from Pennsylvania, it is a compelling tale of faith and redemption. Cindy Sanford tells how a chance correspondence with Ken, a prisoner artist, began to change her entrenched ideas about offenders. It now adds voice to the work of the National Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. In summer 1999, America's Most Wanted broadcast the hunt for two teenagers fleeing a double homicide. Twelve years later Cindy was introduced to one of these boys through his remarkable wildlife art. By now a young man, he had spent half his life in prison. Initially wary, Cindy was surprised to find him humble, polite and deeply grateful for her interest. Gradually she and her family were able to look beyond his crime to who he had become. Despite a hardening of attitudes, Letters to a Lifer shows why the campaign against LWOP sentences for juveniles is gaining momentum. It has a moving Foreword by Illinois public defender Jeanne Bishop whose sister was killed by a minor who, like Ken, received LWOP.

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