Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir

Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir
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Carla Conti is a true crime journalist and staunch prison reform
advocate. In Chained Birds, Conti becomes part of the story
herself.

She was asked to tell the story of Kevin Sanders and the conditions
he experienced as a convict serving his sentence at Lewisburg
Prison in Pennsylvania. Sanders’ legal team soon hires her to help
his defense, specifically a series of unjust assault charges.

It all started with a snowball, and it would, pardon the pun,
snowball into something more. One inmate launched a snowball at a
corrections officer before assaulting him—the officer’s revenge led
to an orchestrated rec cage assault that involved Sanders through
no fault of his own. This is the event that brought Sanders to
Conti’s attention, as well as the prison’s Special Management Unit,
which turned out to be rife with abuse , corruption, and
violence.

As a journalist and advocate, she became a fierce supporter not
only for Sanders but for reformation of the entire prison system.
The trial was just the beginning as Conti recounts her life before,
during, and after the case, including the political strife, family
drama, and even the writing of this book.

Conti writes with an endearing balance of humor and passion, and
she is a driven and intelligent advocate for those without a
voice—even before working with Sanders. Without her assistance on
the case, he might have disappeared into the system and the SMU
program may have gone unnoticed.

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