Someone I Used to Know

"Why you should be reading this book.

To the victims of crime: Make no mistake about it, after reading this book,

you will know beyond a reasonable doubt that prisoners in jail are suffering.

Whether it is on the city, county, or state level, prisoners are living in a

world that far extends the suffering they have inflicted upon you.

Having this knowledge will never make up for your loss or ill feelings. It can

only do two things: give you peace of mind...or allow you to forgive.

In any case, each and every day a criminal is behind bars, s/he is subject to

disease, destruction, despair, and death. This book will provide you with

extremely vivid details of the life of a prisoner...And I can assure you, “

what’s going in the mind of a prisoner is far more torturous than what’s

happening in the cell.”

To the parents: What will it be today that sets you apart from the

responsibility of being accountable to your children. How will you spend your

day? What puts you at risk of coming to jail today? Consider the events that

make up your day; the drives, the pick ups, the drops, the fighting, the

stealing, the dealing, the doping, the drinking. How much longer can you play

this game of roulette with your children? What’s it going take for you to

already realize the sorrow, regret, and despair, you will feel by coming to

jail and simultaneously abandoning your children.

To the criminal: Are you alone? Did you come to jail today? Will you be here

tomorrow? Does your history wish for a better re-occurrence of events

unfolding in your life? Right now, at this very moment, are you in jail

because of some unforseen future that should have been recognized long before

the cuffs were place around your wrists? If you are in jail today, have been

in jail before, or are setting yourself up to go to jail, this is the book to

read.

Jail is the sentence you receive for committing a crime. The sentence will be

time. But the true punishment of your crime will come from the imprisonment of

your mind.

Peter Hall

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