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.
- ISBN10 156148203X
- ISBN13 9781561482030
- Publish Date 19 December 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Good Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 124
- Language English