Background
Soering, Jens was born on August 1, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand. Son of Klaus and Anne-Claire Soering.
("His experiences ... reveal some amazing ways that God’s ...)
"His experiences ... reveal some amazing ways that God’s Spirit can break through the fear, violence, and despair of prison life. Along with these benefits, you will be exposed to the electrifying story of a very articulate, impassioned person writing from his prison cell, as other Christian spiritual writers beginning with St. Paul have done through the centuries." (Tilden Edwards, from the foreword) In this remarkable book, Jens Söring, a convict serving two life sentences in a Virginia prison, uses Centering Prayer and Centering Practice to survive the daily misery of prison life—and shows how we can all transform our crosses, our prisons (literal or metaphorical), into the means of our salvation. It is both a learned work on contemplative prayer and a moving true story of personal redemption that shocks and inspires.
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(The United States has more people locked away in prison p...)
The United States has more people locked away in prison per capita than any other country. Prison building is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and in some states more money is spent on prisons and prisoners than on education. Nearly one quarter of all prison inmates worldwide are housed in U.S. jails or penitentiaries, even though the United States has only five percent of the world’s population. Yet, in spite of the vast amount of resources spent on locking people up and the number of people in prison, the United States leads the developed world in the number of homicides and violent assaults. For the last eighteen years, Jens Soering has experienced the inside of many different prison environments, from a youth remand center in London to America’s notorious Supermax prisons, to medium-security institutions. What he has seen and experienced has convinced him that not only do prisons not rehabilitate prisoners who may be useful for society once their sentence has ended, but prisons turn petty criminals into hardened convicts—all at enormous expense to society. Meanwhile, other nations control their crime rates at a fraction of the cost of the United States correctional system. Soering does not argue that prisons should not exist or dispute that there are people who need to be locked away. His book is not an indictment of the legal system that lands many people in prison. Instead, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse offers a mainly monetary analysis of why it is absurd fiscal policy to lock people up so often and for so long.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590560760/?tag=2022091-20
Soering, Jens was born on August 1, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand. Son of Klaus and Anne-Claire Soering.
(The United States has more people locked away in prison p...)
("His experiences ... reveal some amazing ways that God’s ...)