Name: Locked in
ISBN: 9780996281607

John Huddle

Pulls back the thick curtain holding many of the secrets inside Word of Faith Fellowship, a small mountain church in Spindale, N.C. that first came to the national stage in 1995, when Inside Edition aired video that included their signature practice of blasting deliverance prayer. Examines group practices, including communal living, deliverance prayer, fund-raising, as well as revealing the essential beliefs and many unwritten rules governing each member. -- from back cover.

My Imprisoned Years in a Destructive Cult

Locked in

John Pfaff

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reform The United States, home to about 5 percent of the world’s population, holds nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. How did we get to this point? InLocked In, John Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of the root causes of mass incarceration,Locked In ultimately forces us to reconsider what we must to do build a more equitable and humane society.

Locked in My Imprisoned Years in a Destructive Cult

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