The Warden, the Inmate, and 34286: A Modern-Day Parable of a Man in Purgatory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798891129009)

It should come as no surprise to anyone that life is messy. It just is, and there is no escaping it. Born behind the eight ball of life, Michael Thompson found out the hard way just how messy, and painful, life would become for him. In the course of his relatively short incarceration at Penbrook Correctional Facility, however, Mikey discovered that justice and mercy go hand in hand, that purgatory is another name for suffering the human condition, and that while there is no escaping it, one can be saved from it--but we have to want it. Really, really want it.