I volunteer one day a week as a Christian Science prison chaplain in a top security men’s prison in the United Kingdom.
One day I was visiting an inmate on a wing with about thirty one-man cells. Suddenly, my visit was terminated when another inmate would not stop angrily hammering on the steel door of his cell. He had been doing this repeatedly for the last three days and nights, plus shouting verbal abuse, so no one had been able to get any proper sleep. It was disruptive and unsettling not only for the inmates but also for the prison staff.
A startling thought came to me: “You can help this guy.”
