During his time in prison for the part he played in Watergate, Mr. Colson had had

a religious conversion and had determined to spend the rest of his life ministering to prisoners, white-collar and violent alike. On this show he movingly describes his own experience of prison and urges an American version of the Thatcher reforms going forward in Britain, in which non-violent criminals are sentenced not to prison but to community service. "Time in prison is interminable. There is no way to describe it.... Corporal punishment would, in the eyes of the inmate, be more humane, but the impact on society would be disastrous."