A women's max prison—unlike journalistic investigations into this element, there are no contrived veils that hide the raw truths about this life or the lives of the inmates who reside here. No prepared-for interviews or arranged excursions into this world that only inmates and staff know the full story of.

Pat worked within these walls day to day for ten years as a part of a specialty team hired to work with and try to rehabilitate those who were considered hopeless.

This book not only tells the story of the team who took on this task against overwhelming odds, but many personal stories of the women they worked with—which even Hollywood couldn't improve on. It is a tale of two virtually incompatible elements of society having to come together, under the worst of conditions, and mesh into a working relationship to create success.