How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners
by
Ralph Blumenthal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes...