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The full story is in Gene McGuire’s book, UNSHACKLED, which I have added to my Recommended Readings in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path.
CLI has distributed thousands of free copies of Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path to inmates all across America.
In some situations, especially in the federal system, men may have committed their crimes in another state…, so chances are very low that they can see their children…five to 10 states away, but Storybook offers a way to connect them by voice.
Prison Fellowship and its sister organization, The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, have honored Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path by placing it on their exclusive recommended reading lists for prisoners.
Scheduled for release May 19, 2017
Deon’s sad poem is featured in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path:
Never Came to Me
I wonder where your love went,
Because it never came to me.
I wonder, if things were different,
How would they be?
We are one but I can’t understand what you see.
To abandon your son and allow me to be
Raised in the streets.
I wonder what you feel at night,
The thoughts that cross as you envision your life.
Do you toss and turn in your sleep,
Or are you cold-hearted?
Do you rest in peace?
You were a father to all the rest of your kids,
So I wonder where your love went.
Because it never came to me.
—Deon C. Nowell (2012), age 31 FCI Butner Low
With seven prisons housing thousands of inmates— a quarter of the town’s population—Huntsville, Texas has earned its nickname, “Prison City.”