Jens Soering is a German citizen and Centering Prayer practitioner who has been incarcerated since 1986. His case has been featured on Court TV and A&E's City Confidential. He has written for America, Sojourners, The Merton Annual and many other publications.

You may click on the thumbnail pictures to see the enlargement of the book cover. The links to the descriptions and ordering the books from their publishers are below.

The Way of the Prisoner - Breaking the Chains of Self through Centering Prayer and Centering Practice
published by Lantern Books (2003).

An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse - An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective published by Lantern Books (2004).

The Convict Christ - In its March/April 2005 issue, Prism magazine (published by Evangelicals for Social Action) printed an article of Jens' called "The Convict Christ." (click to read Prism Magazine article). This piece is, essentially, the Introduction to his third book, The Convict Christ - What the Gospels Say about Criminal Justice, which is published by Orbis Books and newly available (March 22, 2006).

Church of the Second Chance - A Faith-Based Approach to Prison Reform published by Lantern Books (2008).

Ein Tag im Leben des 179212 - published by Gütersloher Verlagshaus (2008).

Richtet nicht, damit ihr nicht gerichtet werdet - published by Echter Verlag (2008).

Wiederhole schweigend ein Wort - published by Gütersloher Verlagshaus (2009)