In 1974 the Watergate scandal sent Chuck Colson, White House special counsel and self-described “hatchet man,” to federal prison. What had started as a career full of political scheming and scandal took a surprising turn during the seven months he spent behind bars. As Colson witnessed the corrosive influence prison had on his fellow inmates, he began to believe that locking more people up would never cure society’s ills. For the rest of his life, he made it his mission to aid prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families.