Doing Time: Finding Hope at San Quentin is a riveting, beautifully written personal account of the author"s ten years involvement in prison ministry of preaching, teaching and visiting the men in the cellblocks at San Quentin State Prison.While experiencing firsthand the wide range of men from drug addicts to lifers in prison, the author"s interaction with them demonstrates a faith and honesty that profoundly impacts his life. This affecting account describes how the author was touched by the genuine spirituality of countless prisoners, their remorse for their sins, and the hardness of prison life.In addition to interweaving his own story among the glimpses of individual prisoners he has ministered to, the author opines on the corruption of a penal system in the hands of management that is accountable to no one, along with the motif that punishment, not rehabilitation, permeates the correctional system.