The Kronos Project is more than a novel. It serves as the narrative blueprint behind our ten-month Root-Cause Rehabilitation program.

     Most rehabilitation initiatives are described through manuals, policy documents, implementation plans, and program guides. We chose a different approach. The Kronos Project was written as a novel.

     Through the experiences of four prison inmates, readers follow the development of an innovative ten-month rehabilitation initiative designed to help participants examine the deeper influences that shaped their lives, choices, and behavior.

     As the story unfolds, readers experience the relationships, mentoring, discussions, challenges, and personal discoveries that form the foundation of Root-Cause Rehabilitation. Rather than describing how the program works, the novel allows readers to experience it.

     Readers also encounter one of the central ideas behind Kronos: the greatest resource within any prison may be its inmates. As participants grow through the program, they begin helping one another confront difficult questions, challenge destructive thinking, and pursue change together. Rehabilitation becomes more than something delivered to inmates. It becomes something they help create.

     While the story is fictional, many of the situations, conversations, and insights grew from decades of prison work, criminal justice experience, and observations about how meaningful change occurs.

     The novel also serves another purpose. It provides a practical way for others to understand how The Kronos Project operates without requiring a traditional implementation manual. Embedded within the story are many of the concepts, structures, and processes that define the ten-month program experience.

     Some readers approach the book as a story. Others approach it as a model for rehabilitation. Both approaches are welcome.

     If you would like a copy of The Kronos Project novel, we would be glad to send one. In many cases, Jeff and Willie will even autograph it for you.

Because sometimes an idea travels farther through a story than through a report.