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ISBN 978-1-57023-353-1 (softcover); 978-57023-371-5 (eBook)
By Ned Rollo with Louis W. Adams
“Finding this book was like finding a gold mine…motivated me to change my thinking process and the way I perceive things!”
–An inmate
#2881 Finally, an innovative self-help book and program designed to help the newly convicted survive their impending incarceration. Here’s a serious problem that’s seldom addressed, until now: Few inmates are mentally prepared to disappear down this dark rabbit hole.
Indeed, prison can be a chilling and costly experience, punctuated with fear, distrust, fragile hope, boredom, grief, and depression. Many new inmates face a prison maze filled with endless barriers, deadly traps, and hopelessness. How can they best cope with life in a cage and then successfully re-enter the free world after two, five, or ten+ years of mind-numbing lockdown? And what about their families who also suffer in silence? If you’re a correctional administrator, what can you do to make their transition more positive while, at the same time, ensuring the safety and well-being of your institution?
For most people, being imprisoned is not the end of the world. After all, nearly 95 percent of inmates will eventually be released into the free world. But first, they must do some serious time and, hopefully, learn the many lessons outlined in this ground-breaking self-help book for inmates and their families. Author Ned Rollo, who has literally walked the walk and talked the talk, tells it like it is with a focus on preparing inmates mentally for their upcoming correctional experience. Here, he offers an in-depth mental and emotional road map running from the moment of felony conviction through five years following release.
Focusing on a dark and dysfunctional mindset that needs to quickly change, this hopeful book stresses the importance of thinking outside the prison cage where inmates will find a life of purpose, meaning, love, and beauty that’s well worth living.
Designed for inmates, loved ones, and correctional educators, this book is filled with Ned’s signature insights:
- understanding true freedom
- confronting the prison experience
- beating the system at its own game
- transforming thoughts and actions
- overcoming barriers to growth and self-worth
- avoiding deadly traps
- accepting responsibility and rejecting excuses
- developing a survival and success strategy
- maintaining physical and mental health
- acquiring education and vocational skills
- saying “Goodbye” and “Hello, I’m back”
- staying in touch with the ever-changing world
- controlling anger and hate
- progressing in the free world
- avoiding the dangers of trying to catch up
This definitive guide to surviving the correctional experience includes a special chapter that provides much-needed advice to the families of offenders who also serve a sentence in silence. It addresses such issues as loss, grief, anger, depression, setting limits, getting help, finding support, maintaining a relationship, helping children, visiting, and homecoming. An extensive resource section reveals the best ex-offender survival and re-entry books and DVDs.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The Nature of Freedom
2. Beating Up the System
3. Welcome to the Maze
4. Waking Up in a Cage: Arrest to Conviction
5. Falling Off into Hell: Life in Prison
6. Rebirth and Beyond: Release to Success
7. Advice for Families of Offenders
The book also is tied into a major DVD (Now What?) and training program (The Now What? Project). 144 pages. Copyright © 2016. ISBN 978-57023-353-1 (softcover) and ISBN 978-57023-371-5 (eBook).
- PRICING: $11.95 for a single copy.
- QUANTITY SPECIALS: 10 copies for $107.60; 25 copies for $254.00; 50 copies for $478.00; 100 copies for $837.00; 500 copies for $3,585.00; 1,000 copies for $5,980.00.
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