Do you ever feel like things are getting worse, that crime is increasing and that every day the crimes get more frequent and more brutal? Unfortunately, if that?s what you?re thinking, you?re right. Every year our prison population rises. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics website stated that in 2004, there were 2,135,901 inmates in our Federal and State prisons, a 2.6% increase from 2003. It doesn?t look like things are getting any better, but maybe that?s just because the right things aren?t being done about it. Car Angel is leading the charge to make a change in our prisons. Every year, Car Angel releases a book into the prison population that inspires changes in its readers. Car Angel believes that changes can be made if only more attention would be spent on reforming instead of just punishing. Taxpayers spend nearly one hundred billion dollars on prisons every year and not even 1% of it goes to rehabilitating criminals. However, thanks to the efforts of Car Angel and our charity partners, those same taxpayers save an estimated $160,000,000 a year from prisoners who have been changed through the reading of our books and do not return to their previous lives of crime. Death Sentence is just one of many books we have released into the prisons. Read the excerpt below and feel the power behind the words. There are reasons why our books make such a difference. The world can become a better place, it just takes a little extra help and love