Life Sentence

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Chosen Books, 1979 - Biography & Autobiography - 306 pages
The follow-up story to Colson's book "Born again", this tells of his return to prison, at first only to visit and help prisoners. But then to begin a work, Prison Fellowship, that wins an astonishing concession from the bureaucracy and places Colson in the new role of a Christian activist for penal reform.

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Contents

Before We Begin
9
PrologueTwo Worlds
13
Release
21
Copyright

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About the author (1979)

Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to President Richard Nixon, is the author of twenty-three books, which have sold nearly five million copies. In 1976 Colson founded Prison Fellowship, which has since become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. In 1991 he launched BreakPoint, a daily radio feature bringing Christian thinking to bear on current issues, which airs on more than one thousand stations nationwide. Colson lives in Virginia.

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