Description: This collection of essays from six incarcerated men about power, punishment, and redemption is a hybrid of prison memoir, philosophy, history, policy document, and manifesto.
Brief description: The Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice develops strategies to heal communities broken by criminal and state violence. This process brings the victims, the offenders, and the community together to resolve collectively how to deal with the aftermath of the offense and its implications for the future. Formed in 2013 by six men (Fly, Faruq, Khalifa, Malakki, Oscar, Shawn) serving life or near-life sentences at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh, the group's name reflects both Hamlet's grim Elsinore castle and Bennu, the Egyptian symbol of rebirth.