Glass didn't want the prison ministry. He wondered what he could tell these men. Glass always had been a Christian. He had followed the rules. He is white and grew up in Texas, very middle class.
Many convicts are poor, black and from the inner city.
Glass talked to friends who had dealt with prisoners. They told him how 90 percent of those behind bars eventually will be released. And most of them will be back in jail within two years. Roscoe is in his early 30s. He hates his father, and still is mad at his mother.