Publisher's Synopsis
As I read this book, I realized that it is one hundred percent realistic in terms of the central problem it addresses. It is a collective effort to interpret the impact of the punitive system on the insertion of inmates into society, employment and family, but as the reader can already anticipate, it is a failed process. In my experience as a health and behavioral health professional, I have witnessed countless cases of social readaptation in which the inmate builds a new identity through therapy and the rediscovery of self-awareness. I have observed how inmates develop skills and abilities around their livelihood and the intelligence to face challenges. I have lived with and interviewed inmates who reinvent themselves with a new perspective of themselves in the face of any adversity and their emotional and human development increases as they go through the most difficult moments of their rehabilitation. On occasions I have observed how a relapse into drugs or violence is reason enough to return to a stronger identity.
