Overview

We didn’t Appreciate that there are 168 hours in a week until an inmate informed us of the fact that he spends 168 hours a week alone. When we visit, we chip off a tiny fraction of this loneliness, and it lasts them the endless passage of time until the next time we come.

You’ll only know what it’s like once you try it.

I came out of the correctional facility after having visited a nice Jewish inmate with a kipah on his head, with the feeling that had been perfectly described to me before I went in. ‘You’ll only know what it’s like once you try it’ and it’s true!