Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences

Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences by Howard Zehr.

Long-time advocate of social justice, Zehr suggests that we “tend not to see victims or offenders as real people. We seldom understand crime as it is actually experienced; as a violation of real people by real people.”

The author combines photographs and interviews to answer the questions, “What does it mean, for those experiencing it, to be locked up for life, with little or no possibility of ever returning to society?”