The Invisible Sentence

A fascinating memoir from the wife of a prisoner and how her family survived outside the prison wire

The Invisible Sentence
Verna McFelin
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 146pg
18 Mar 2021 NZ
9780473562779
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A fascinating memoir from the wife of a prisoner and how her family survived outside the prison wire. Riveting from start to finish. . . the incredible story of how a woman and her family survived poverty and injustices, and yet received miraculous provision. How did a woman who suffered such trauma go on to change the face of the justice system in New Zealand and the world? Verna' s and her children' s lives changed forever when police knocked on her door one evening and her husband was arrested for a kidnapping, then tried and sentenced to eleven years in jail. While visiting various prisons over the next few years, Verna soon realised that not only were the prisoners serving a sentence, but the families were also serving their own invisible sentences outside the prison wire. . . ". . . a story of institutional maltreatment, of bureaucratic indifference, of the traumatisation and bullying of her children, of individual acts of cruelty and generosity, of hardship, of the value of collective strength and support-and of resilience and faithfulness in the face of adversity. " -Sir Kim Workman KNZM, QSO
VERNA McFELIN MNZM has dedicated her life to part of the criminal justice system most of us forget to remember, the families, especially the children of offenders. The work Verna has done with Pillars, an organisation that supports the children and families of prisoners in New Zealand she founded in 1988 has been praised around the world. is the founder of Pillars (pillars. org. nz) and CEO for 32 years, and is also a founding member of INCCIP (inccip. org), the International Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Learn more at www. vernamcfelin. com

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