No science, education or beating ever cured a criminal, Starr Daily tells the camps. Crime is “a disease of the conscience,” and a dead conscience has to be raised, not taught. He describes his father, who knocked in prayer through twenty-five years of crime, and whose last letter from a hospital bed broke off when the pencil snapped on the word “God.” He also describes a mother in Seattle whose knocking prayer freed her daughter from drug addiction.
