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About The Book
Dreams from the Monster Factory
A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All
An intimate, harrowing, and revelatory chronicle of how one
woman with a profound belief in people's ability to change is
transforming the San Francisco jails-the monster factories-
and the criminals incarcerated there.
Sunny Schwartz, a nationally recognized expert in criminal
justice reform, has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey
Show and Larry King Live to talk about Resolve to Stop
the Violence (RSVP), a groundbreaking program she created
for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. RSVP brings
together victims and offenders in a unique correctional program that empowers victims, and requires offenders to take
true responsibility for their actions and eliminate their violent
behavior. RSVP has cut recidivism for violent re-arrests by up
to eighty percent.
Charismatic and deeply compassionate, Sunny Schwartz
grew up on Chicago's South Side in the 1960s. She fought with
her family, struggled through school, and floundered as she
tried to make something of herself. Bucking expectations of
failure, she applied to one of the only law schools that didn't
require a college degree, passed the bar, and began her life's
work in the criminal justice system-and was disheartened
by the broken, inflexible system she found. But instead of
quitting, she decided to transform the system, to make prison
a place that can change people for the better. In Dreams from
the Monster Factory Sunny shares years of powerful stories of
crime, punishment, and, ultimately, redemption.
Sunny Schwartz is a twenty-seven-year veteran of the
criminal justice system, who speaks nationally about the
establishment of her Resolve to Stop the Violence Project
(RSVP). Her program was a recent recipient of the
prestigious "Oscars in Government" Innovations in Government
Award, sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government
of Harvard University and the Ash Institute.
David Boodell has worked in television as a writer, producer, cameraman,
and a series supervising producer for nonfiction television programming on
A&E, The History Channel, MSNBC, and other networks. He lives and works
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