Chuck Colson ~ 4 MP3 AUDIOBOOK COLLECTION
Chuck ColsonAlmost 40 years ago, Charles W. Colson was not thinking about reaching out to prison inmates or reforming the U.S. penal system. In fact, this aide to President Richard Nixon was incapable of humanitarian thought, according to the media of the mid-1970s. Colson was known as the White House hatchet man, a man feared by even the most powerful politicos during his four years of service to Nixon. When news of Colson's conversion to Christianity leaked to the press in 1973, The Boston Globe reported, If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everybody. In 1974 Colson entered a plea of guilty to Watergate-related charges; although not implicated in the Watergate burglary, he voluntarily pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Daniel Ellsberg Case. He entered Alabama's Maxwell Prison in 1974 as a new Christian and as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. He served seven months of a one- to