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Effective programming and treatment, both during and after incarceration, play a pivotal role in helping people successfully reintegrate into their communities after their release from custody. In order to be effective, these programs must be responsive to the unique needs of special populations, including those sentenced to life.

Persons convicted of capital crimes are condemned to die, and that is a central fact of their existence. They are also condemned to years of confinement on death row, where they must forge a daily round of life for the duration of their sentences, which can run into decades. This chapter focuses on lived experience of daily life on death row as prisoners forge a life in the shadow of executions.