num_pages: 288
description: As a corrections officer at an all-male maximum security prison Sara Lunsford worked with the worst of the worst from serial killers to white supremacists. She knew that at the end of every day she had to try and shed the memories of the horrors she had witnessed in order to live a happy existence. But the darkness invaded every part of her life. And dealing with a stressful divorce and a mother sucumbing to cancer led her to a complete immersion in her work and eventually the bottom of a liquor bottle. Sweet Hell on Fire takes the reader on a journey with the author from hitting rock bottom to becoming a woman who understands the meaning of sacrifice the joy of redemption and the quiet haven to be found in hope.
language: English
title: Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In
publisher: Sourcebooks