Drug dealers and addicts, murderers, hopeless alcoholics and a prostitution ring leader …
• With 45 arrests and 15 years of hard time, this Yup’ik native can’t get his drinking and drugging under control until he is invited into a community within the prison that changes his life.
• A crazy, violent woman nick-named “Purple” dominates the streets, running a high-class prostitution ring, using and dealing drugs; she’s not afraid to plunge her knife into those who cross her wrong, until one day …
• A heroin addict and clever dealer who evades arrest for years is finally caught, imprisoned … and falls in love with his female tutor; he takes a completely unexpected turn and the lives of others are changed in his wake.
• A man called to preach as a child decides to stop running from God. But after a male guest suddenly pulls out a gun threatening his family members’ lives, Javis lands himself in a cold, hard jail cell for years – the best thing that ever happened to him.
Seven prisoners. Seven men and women behind the barbed wire surrounding prisons across Alaska. But each finds a way to beat the odds and discover a life of purpose and joy. One of these miraculously emerges as the founder of a new community of prisoners that is rocking the system called the Transformational Living Community (TLC). Graduates from this new way of living within the Alaska prison system are only 33 percent likely to reoffend within three years of release, while the national rates hover at 66 percent.
Those warriors who tell their stories of the rough road to transformation are living proof.
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