Prison Stories

About the Book

This book is a story or series of stories about people. People in prison: some are employees, but most are inmates. This book is their story. In prison everyone has a story and most want to tell their story. The main problem is to get someone to listen. It is often a story of violence, a story of loneliness, and in many cases the horror of the unknown. This book is the result of countless hours of listening to story by story of hatred. Countless days (indeed years) about plans for that “day” when they get out. This book is the “Boiling Down” of the American version of ‘Crime And Punishment’. Hopefully someone will see a ray of hope in the human predicament called Crime.

About the Author

This book contains letters and writings over a period of several years about inmates and prison experiences of the author. It tells the story of children of inmates, their families as well as those who minister to them and of the divine plan them brought them together. Dr. Green, the author, first encountered prison ministry when he went with his minister father to minister in local prisons after church services on Sunday afternoon. As a sergeant in the Korean war, he saw the urgent need for prison chaplains for both the Americans, as well as the Koreans. Upon returning home he attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida. Then pursued further education in Berkeley, California at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary leading to his doctorate. After serving as Chaplain at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, he entered the local church ministry. He served churches in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Nevada and California. This ultimately led to the prison chaplaincy at San Quentin and finally ended at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California. He was the first chaplain employed at this new prison. He served there until he retired to live on the banks of Florida’s beautiful Suwannee River