“having spent years in facilities filled with noise, filth, and fear—not exactly the stuff of successful rehabilitation.”
I guess that comes under the heading of, “Things I should have thought of BEFORE I committed my 5th or 6th crime.”
Colson was in prison for several years as a result of Watergate.
The rest of the last 3 decades he has volunteered to be in prison, working hard to change offenders.