When TV reporter Jodie Sinclair went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Death House at Angola, in 1981, she expected to report about the death penalty and leave. Instead, she fell in love. Love Behind Bars: The True Story of an American Prisoner’s Wife (Arcade Publishing; Hardcover; February 14, 2020) tells the story of her marriage to a Louisiana inmate and how it spurred her 25 year fight to free him from prison. He was sentenced to death when he was 20 years old after he accidentally murdered a convenience store clerk in a robbery gone wrong. He was a prison writer when they met with national journalism awards for his articles in The Angolite, the nation's only uncensored prison magazine. From then on, she lived with one foot in the outside world and one in the complex, dehumanizing bureaucracy of the prison world. This memoir tracks her heroic, twenty-five-year battle to save her husband from dying in prison, including the professional setbacks she suffered for marrying a prisoner and a pardons scandal in which she wore a wire for the FBI to expose corruption in the criminal justice system. This uplifting true story shows how one woman who stood by her man was able to expose the horrors of our criminal justice system, becoming a voice for all those who have loved ones behind bars. Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" wrote the preface for this book.
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