In her new book, Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult gives you a book you can't put down because she raises questions that keep you thinking well into the night. Death row inmate, Shay Bourne wants to give his heart to the sister of the girl he was accused of killing. This involves the ACLU who needs to plead for him to die by hanging instead of lethal injection in order to preserve the organs. Outside the prison are all the people who believe and don't believe in the death penalty. It discusses the ins and outs of organ transplants, the ideas of salvation and forgivness, and it tests the religous beliefs of many.
Inside the prison the reader is given an amazing depiction of prison life by inmate Lucius. I found this part to be facinating. It talked about how the inmates are treated and what they think of each other, how they hide their treasures and how they spend the long hours in their cells. It discussed the things they missed the most while incarcerated and the ongoing balance between each other and their jailers.
When I attended the Para Pro conference earlier this month I did attend a breakout session talking about correctional libraries and the offenders in the system. This is a special population that many of us know little about.
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