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This book offers an extraordinary analysis of the nature, prevalence, and consequences of harm in the lives of people living in prisons. More importantly, the discussion goes beyond describing harm to offer concrete, feasible, sustainable, and evidence-based solutions that can be implemented to turn prisons into healing communities. Dr. Wolff reminds us that virtues like kindness, authenticity, persistence, empathy, consistency, humility, and respect are powerful tools for healing, calling for a complete change of ideology within prisons. Liliane Windsor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana A book that will captivate both those new to this field and experts alike. Dr Wolff masterfully combines her decades of experience conducting research in prison with international evidence and powerful testimonies from incarcerated people. The book is engaging, informative and, above all, very human. It contextualizes some wrenching data, and offers practical suggestions for researchers and practitioners. A book to read, and read again. Eva Aizpurua Trinity College Dublin

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Nancy Wolff, an economist and distinguished professor, is the director of the Bloustein Center for Survey Research at Rutgers University. She has authored over a 100 articles, chapters, and reports on the influence of public policies and justice practices on the incarceration and rehabilitation of justice-involved persons. Her research explores the need for behavioral health services among justice-involved individuals, treatment interventions that are responsive to those needs, and the role of environmental conditions and training in improving the effectiveness of treatment interventions provided inside correctional settings. For over a decade, Dr Wolff spent two or more days a week inside prisons in Pennsylvania and New Jersey teaching, building, and co-leading literacy and skill-building programs. She has received numerous awards for her prison-based service programs.

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