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
