Doing Life: Reflections Of Men And Women Serving Life Sentences

By Howard Zehr

          What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have "lifers" learned about lifefrom having taken a life? Photographer Howard Zehr has interviewed and made portraits of men and women in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. Readers see the prisoners as people, de-mystified.           Brief text accompanies each portrait, the voice of each prisoner speaking openly about the crime each has committed, the utter violation of another person each has caused. They speak of loneliness, missing their children growing up, dealing with the vacuum, caught between death and life. A timely book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Books
• Release date: Dec 1, 1996
• ISBN: 9781680992298

Howard Zehr

Howard Zehr is a distinguished professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. He is the author of the bestselling The Little Book of Restorative Justice and Doing Life, among other titles.