In the Sanctuary of Outcasts : A Memoir

from SeriousGrace

I have to admit now that I have read In the Sanctuary of Outcasts I can officially say I am bummed I didn't receive this as an Early Review back in 2009. This would have been one of my favorites. Not just one of my favorites, but one of my all-time favorites, for sure. Confessional: I sometimes s...

from karieh

"For as long as my children could remember, I had ignored fences and boundaries and rules. I climbed buildings to get balls out of gutters. I jumped curbs to get closer to the entrance of football games. I talked clerks into giving us rooms at overbooked hotels. Nothing much had prevented me from...

from wcath

Located on a drowsy bend of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana, Carville is home to the National Hansen's Disease Museum. It was named for political personality James Carville's grandfather and was home to the Federal Medical Center, a minimum security facility for non-violent federal pr...

from bogopea

What a cast of characters! True, but hard to believe. Author sentenced to serve time in a minimum security prison on same grounds as the only remaining leper colony in the US. The author uses the year to assess himself, past and present, and figures out his future. And all the inmates and patient...

from clue

I'm glad Neil White went to prison so he could write this book. As a young man White always wanted more. More prestige, more money, more flashy things. To maintain an image of success he started check kiting and eventually ended up in Federal prison for it. A resident of New Orleans, he was sent ...