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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Adoption Reform Movement Sacrificial Lamb,
By A Customer
This review is from: To Prison With Love (Paperback)
Sandy Musser was imprisoned for doing no more than millions of investigators do with the blessing of state licensing agencies. Locating people. Reuniting families separated by adoption, and on many occasions outwitting those who would forever keep these families apart. For that, she spent 4 months in a Federal Prison Researchers in the adoption reform movement read this book! Know who you are talking to, who you are so valiantly and compassionately trying to help. They may not be WHO you think they are! As you read To Prison With Love: Rejoice with Sandy as she reunites family after family. Admire her for fictionalizing names to protect people who helped her, and for reassuring an investigator that she works with, who thinks SHE is being investigated, that she will stand by her no matter what. Feel her growing apprehension as she starts suspecting SHE is being setup to take the fall for the investigator. And "friend." (Named in the book) Feel Sandy's shock and horror when she reads the morning headlines that are her first notice that she HAS been setup, and has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, theft of government property, and other things. Sit with her through a long trial. Read actual transcripts of the testimony--not hers, for she was afraid she may incriminate others in the adoption reform movement. Wonder why the government would let the real felon off with only 2 months in a halfway house and probation, while Sandy got 4 months in prison. You won't need to really, for the government was after a much bigger "fish" then the investigator. Humming in Sandy Musser, of the Musser Foundation would, as the government investigator said "Send a (more) chilling message to those would would do those kinds of things." Ride with Sandy to prison, where she is not processed for 3 days. Sit with her in a silent cell where there is no time, no radio, nothing to read, no one to speak to and none of her medication available. Cry with her as she lies on the floor, tears streaming, quietly singing an old hymn she learned in Sunday School--"On a hill far away, stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame.... I will cherish that old cross, till my burdens at last I lay down" Until she falls asleep. Stay with Sandy as she copes as best she can with prison life. Share her bewilderment and pain as she begins to realize that many of her friends in the adoption reform movement have turned their backs on her, afraid of getting involved. Finally, go home with Sandy to Cape Coral, Florida where she tries to start over. Without being permitted to engage in adoption search. Perhaps her greatest punishment. Reunting families was Sandy's life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Adoption Reform Movement Sacrificial Lamb,
By A Customer
This review is from: To Prison With Love (Paperback)
Sandy Musser was imprisoned for doing no more than millions of investigators do with the blessing of state licensing agencies. Locating people. Reuniting families separated by adoption, and on many occasions outwitting those who would forever keep these families apart. For that, she spent 4 months in a Federal Prison Researchers in the adoption reform movement read this book! Know who you are talking to, who you are so valiantly and compassionately trying to help. They may not be WHO you think they are! And you could be set up as Sandy was. As you read To Prison With Love: Rejoice with Sandy as she reunites family after family. Admire her for fictionalizing names to protect people who helped her, and for reassuring an investigator that she works with, who thinks SHE is being investigated, that she will stand by her no matter what. Feel her growing apprehension as she starts suspecting SHE is being setup to take the fall for the investigator. And "friend." (Named in the book) Cringe when she reads the morning headlines that are her first notice that she has been setup, and has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, theft of government property, and other things. Sit with her through a long trial. Read actual transcripts of the testimony--not hers, for she was afraid she may incriminate others in the adoption reform movement. Wonder why the real felon only got 2 months in a halfway house and probation, while Sandy got 4 months in prison. Ride with Sandy to prison, where she is not processed for 3 days. Sit with her i a cell where there was no time, no radio, nothing to read, no one to speak to and none of her medication available. Cry with her as she lies on the floor, tears streaming, quietly singing an old hymn she learned in Sunday School--"On a hill far away, stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame.... I will cherish that old cross, till my burdens at last I lay down" Until she falls asleep. Stay with Sandy as she copes as best she can with prison life. Share her bewilderment and pain as she begins to realize that many of her friends in the adoption reform movement have turned their backs on her, afraid of getting involved. Finally, go home with Sandy to Cape Coral, Florida where she tries to start over. Without being permitted to engage in adoption search. Perhaps her greatest punishment. Reunting families was Sandy's life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Important Story Could be Written Better,
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This review is from: To Prison With Love (Paperback)
This is an important story because it illustrates how sealed adoption records cause disrespect for law and force people who need to make contact with their biological families to take desperate measures. The struggle for open records is a Civil Rights movement. I was disappointed by the quality of the writing, however. The book is only somewhat chronological and skips around a bit. Although it is a valuable memoir, a more cohesive writing of the events entailed would help. Also, those that are involved in this Civil Rights movement have to be prepared to made an example of as this is one of the only ways to get attention for the movement. When MLK was incarcerated he wrote the landmark "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". It would have helped the book and the movement in general were the tone of the book not one of paranoia and self-hagiography.
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