title: My Journey with Prisoners: Perceptions, Observations & Opinions
author: Carol E. Briney
description: Carol E. Briney, a contemporary grounded theorist in the educational environment, is the founding executive director of Reentry Bridge Network, Inc. Briney believes that a systematic approach is required to reduce the likelihood of recidivism. For nearly a decade she has written and facilitated holistic pro-social programs inside prisons and in community forums. Her programs support bridging the gap between prison and community by focusing on human value, grief-impairment, daily literacy, reentry and job readiness, trauma-informed care, the healing arts, and understanding poverty. The foundation of Briney's work is fundamentally twofold. First, her strong belief that if we cant help people to discover and believe their own value on a universal level, how can we expect them to see the value in their victims or their environment? The second is her belief that all crime is ultimately driven by trauma; and marginalized people have suffered complex compound traumas that have affected most areas of their development. These traumas have to be addressed and reframed in a way that teaches coping skills and diffuses the acting out that is the result of the pressing dilemmas of unresolved trauma and resultant anger. Briney is pursuing her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies based on her research in trauma and crime. She earned her Master of Liberal Studies from Kent State University; her Bachelor of Arts Fine Arts with Psychology minor from the University of New Mexico; her Associate of Arts Fine Arts from Central New Mexico College; and her certification as a Trauma Specialist from the TLC Institute. Briney enjoyed an extensive national corporate management background before retooling her focus on public administration and non-profit organizations.
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  Prisoner of Desire
  
  Mary Wine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  Northfleet, Great Britain 1831 Emily St. John Godford was dead. Swollen black
  clouds filled the sky. There were so many of them, they pressed down on the
  city and everyone in it. Lorena St.
  
  John didn't shiver. Her heart was frozen, she was sure of it. Grief held her
  in its grip. Three years after her mother's second marriage, fate was taking
  another parent from her.
  
  Lorena cast a look at her sisters and stared at the same misery on their
  faces. Words failed her.
  
  After three years of scraping together positive thoughts to salve the lashing
  words of her
  
  stepfather, her will was worn thin.
  
  A stepfather who had been necessary to keep them all off the street. Her own
  father had taken too many risks on his beloved shipbuilding
  
  yard. Risks which might have made him rich, if he had seen one more year. But
  fate had struck him down while notes were yet unpaid. Their mother remarried
  to keep the St. John shipyard off the a