The Sentence: A Family's Prison Memoir

By Gene Kraig

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097597601X
• ISBN13: 9780975976012
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Greenpoint Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Compassionate View of Mistaken Choices

Told in a compelling and insightful manner, this book is a must read for all prison reformers and those interested in the workings of a family under enormous stress. Kraig writes with a poet's eye and a loving wife's perspective, to unfold the tragedy of her family and her husband's life.

A Must Read!

What an incredibly powerful story! We are reading this for my book club and everyone is raving about it. A total page-turner. Kraig is a wonderful writer and storyteller. The book breaks open their lives. I felt like I was a member of her family. It was an amazing gift to have this insight into what it is like in prison and a true story about our justice system. It was such genuine tale of life and love.

Compelling Perspective

Gene Kraig's book offers a compelling perspective on the criminal justice system. Readers are likely to emphatize with her situation and that of her family as they faced a criminal prosecution that does certainly doesn't appear warranted in this narrative. When Ms. Kraig spoke at Wayne State University Law School recently, students found her story moving as a behind-the-scenes account from a non-lawyer who understood all too well the consequences of legal tactics. Others are likely, too, to believe this a worthwhile work.

gripping and compelling

I picked up this book before going to bed and could not put it down. It's a heartfelt and emotional journey inside and out of our country's prison system from one family's point of view. I was engaged from the first page and felt like I was right there with the Kraig's as they went through every painful decision as well as the legal process from indictment to trial to imprisonment. Kraig's writing is honest and engaging and brings up many important questions about how we live our lives, fate and the importance of family.