Redemption Story: Promotional Edition

ISBN-13: 9781491059203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 194 str.

MR Paul P. Pommells

Opis

Redemption Story is a work of fiction. If my characters and situations resemble persons and events in real life, it is purely coincidental. But it is no surprise either. Redemption Story is loosely based on my own life, but it is not my story alone. It is a composite of the lives of many incarcerated men: their pasts, their presents, and possibly their futures. Young men and women growing up in tough urban neighborhoods will identify with, or at least recognize, many of my inmate characters. Most urban families have at least one relative or family friend who is incarcerated, often for very good reason. But sometimes that relative or friend's incarceration is an overreaction, a punishment that does not fit the crime if the situation were better understood... and sometimes that incarceration is a simple mistake. A mistake as simple as the ethnocentrism that leads a victim to confidently identify someone as the perpetrator when that someone and the real perpetrator only share the most general racial phenotype. When the real perp and the convicted person are placed side by side, it is sometimes difficult to imagine how such a mistake could have happened. This is only one of many ways that prisons fill with minorities who either ought to be somewhere else, or who ought not be there at all. But those mistakes are in the past. The present plight of prisoners in the State of California faces us in the present. Redemption Story shows how you can find and help those inmates who are ready to grow. And Redemption Story looks to their futures as well. Sadly, the time horizon of many inmates, and of many who reach out to help them, is pitifully limited. Their futures are imaged clearly only as far as the next specific milestone: earning a GED, learning a trade, preparing for a parole hearing. After that, the vision for their future either becomes glowingly rosy and fuzzy and difficult to believe (especially for the inmate), or it simply... ceases. Vanishes. As if we cannot imagine a tangible and productive future for an inmate, whether they are released or remain in prison indefinitely. Redemption Story focuses its future-vision on just one character, but it does so in a way that will stretch and clarify the vision and fuel the hope of all who read it, inmates and their friends, families, and advocates alike. - Paul Pommells, Author "Paul Pommells' book is engaging and riveting. This is a masterfully-written account of life in prison and the road to rehabilitation." - Marvin Avila, Ed.D. "Author Paul Pommells portrays vividly and realistically the common ethnic person caught up in a drop-out society. Despite the darkness of the prison system, Inmate Joseph realizes he has choices. This book of transformation is a must-read for we who choose to make a difference for a better world." - Sister Mary Sean Hodges, O.P. "Redemption Story reveals the evolution I have personally witnessed in the lives of thousands of prisoners. From the "prison culture" mentality to the Prison Release Gate and beyond, the main character, Joseph, consistently makes the daily choices which ultimately break dysfunctional cycles. As the book states, this transformation leads to the design of noble traditions that endure. Redemption Story puts into words the vision I have for effective corrections: Academy-like education and peer-facilitated study with the essential component of permitting those living lives of service to do so in their home towns and communities. Together we can pave the way for the emerging reality and Paul Pommells provides the story to take us there." - Mara Leigh Taylor, Founder & Executive Director of GOGI

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