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A New Book By Wilbert Rideau - Available Tuesday

By Steve Hall

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance will be available Tuesday, April 27.  You can order now at the link from Amazon.com, or visit your local independent bookseller on Tuesday.  It's published by Random House.Wilbert Rideau is scheduled to be featured on the CBS News program Sunday Morning, this Sunday. Here's the description from Publisher's Weekly, via Amazon.A death row inmate finds redemption as a prison journalist in this uplifting memoir. In 1961, after a bungled bank robbery, Rideau was convicted of murder at the age of 19 and received a death sentence that was later commuted to life in prison at Louisiana's Angola penitentiary, then the most violent in the nation. Against all expectations, his own included, he turned his up-to-then cursed life around, becoming editor of the prison newsmagazine, the Angolite, and an NPR correspondent who published nationally acclaimed articles on prison violence, rape and sexual slavery, and the cruelty of the electric chair...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).