Prison Is A Place

Award-winning journalist Harley Sorensen exchanged letters with a group of St. Paul Sunday school children from his cell in Minnesota's Stillwater Prison, where he spent eight and a half years. He hoped to learn what children think about prisons and their occupants and share what he knew about both. Sorensen thought the exchange would make a good book young people would be interested in reading. It did. But rejected by major publishers, Prison Is A Place was forgotten as Sorensen went on to write for the Minneapolis Tribune, Examiner.com and SFGate.com. After the Star-Tribune noted Sorensen's death at 79 in 2011, Sorensen's longtime girlfriend was contacted by a Minnesota storage bin buyer who had purchased the contents of an abandoned storage unit and found this book and other personal treasures inside. Eighteen months later - and 40 years after it was written - Chronic Discontent Books brings you Prison Is A Place by Harley Sorensen, our hero and friend.