New
Book Release!
Coming Soon this year 2008
"Families Behind Bars"
Written by Kay
Danes
(Published by New
Holland Publishers Australia)
Kay Danes
will take you to some of the most evil dungeons on our planet and
tell you stories right out of a gothic horror novel. Her characters are not
evil sociopaths who come from wacky dysfunctional families- trapped in a world
of hopelessness and despair- many are ordinary people just like you and me.
Families Behind Bars will make you cry, it will cause you despair-but it will
also inspire you and offer you the hope that nothing is impossible.
In 2000 Kay and her husband Kerry were wrongfully imprisoned in Laos. While
languishing in a squalid prison, waiting for her government to secure their
freedom, Kay promised her fellow inmates that-if she ever escaped that hell-
hole she would help raise awareness about the appalling conditions they faced,
rightfully or wrongfully, and the unimaginable suffering their families endured,
often forgotten or shunned by society.
Families Behind Bars is the story of Kay's battle to fulfil that promise and to
help families who have loved ones detained overseas.
The people in this book are real. Some are high-profile prisoners, such as David
Hicks, Michael Connell and Schapelle Corby, but for each celebrity inmate there
are dozens whose stories are equally tragic and never told - but should be.
(Saluting
all the humanitarian organisations, their volunteers, bloggers, individuals,
forum administrators, civil libertarians, human rights lawyers and devoted
advocates
who selflessly give up their valuable time to assist families and their loved
ones
through difficulties, especially those representing such groups as the Foreign
Prisoner
Support Service, Cage Prisoners & Hhugs, Prisoners Abroad (UK), Fair Trials
International,
Amnesty International, Innocence Project and Reprieve.)
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