This memoir of a journey of conscience, that led to a prison cell for a grandfather in his sixties, tells one story of a growing number of prisoners of conscience in America. This retired clergyman reflects on why he ended up incar-cerated, tells what he experienced in a federal prison camp, and contemplates where conscience can take us. From his prison journal and other writings, the prisoner speaks in a mix of pain and humor, ugliness and beauty, that provides insight into people of conscience, points out national policies that lead to gross human rights abuse, and lays open the brutal nature of the American justice system. Kenneth Kennon was born and reared in a politically conservative Missouri Ozarks family. He was a Boy Scout in his youth, a security clerk for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a young adult, and an ordained clergyman in pastoral ministry for decades before his incarceration in a federal prison for a peaceful act of conscience. Active in the protection of refugees, the Sanctuary Movement, and Pastors for Peace Caravans to Central America, he has been involved in SOA Watch efforts to close the U.S. "school of the assassins" on Fort Benning since 1992. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

ISBN: 9781401025168