My friend Chris Hoke, a corrections chaplain with Tierra Nueva in Washington state, was recently on NPR’s Snap Judgment, talking about isolation and contact in the penal system. This is totally worth 11 minutes of your time. Chris, Bob Ekblad, Nick & Elizabeth Turman-Bryant, and all the rest of the folks at Tierra Nueva have done a lot to shape who I am and what I do.
Hopping Hadrian's Wall 
The pain of watching and standing by while we mistreat our brothers and sisters, while we mistreat ourselves, can and does bring a prison visitor to tears.