Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In

"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."—Publishers Weekly

A memoir unlike any other that explores addiction, crime, and redemption.

The true story of one correctional officer's life behind bars—the ones at work and the ones she built herself.

I was a bad mother,

a bad daughter,

a bad wife, a bad friend.

Boozed out and tired,

with no dreams

and no future.

But I was a good officer.

Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex criminals—the kinds of people who go down in t...