About Time: Biography of a New Zealand Prison Chaplain by Marie Gray

When the young Lawrie More passed Mt Eden prison on his way to school, little did he imagine that twenty years of his life would be spent behind such forbidding walls. He would eventually become senior prison chaplain of New Zealand and leave his indelible stamp on the system and those involved in it -- 'inside' and 'outside'. Through the eyes of an unorthodox and colourful personality we look 'inside' and meet criminals sent down for murder, rape and robbery and a prostitute who demands attention. Here is a mirror on to the human face of the system, where anger and suspicion grow in the hot-house of isolation and punishment, and human dignity is left at the prison gate. About Time is both a gripping story and textbook. It is asking what society is doing to help the offender face himself and the outside world again.