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The growing number of women in prison has alarmed taxpayers, child welfare advocates, human rights activists, and policy makers.  Veronica A.  Shaffer, the author of the new book, I Hear Your Cry:  Women in Prison, takes readers into the heart of a women’s prison, where Shaffer went to teach prisoners skills designed to release them from their emotional and physical jails. Veronica graduated from Johns Hopkins Hospital as a radiologic technologists and later studied the healing arts with noted teacher Elizabeth Stratton.  She achieved certification as a yoga practitioner. www.veronicashaffer.com

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