Robert Johnson, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Justice, Law and Criminology at American University, editor and publisher of BleakHouse Publishing, and an award-winning author of books and articles on crime and punishment, including works of social science, law, poetry, and fiction. He is the author several books, including Hard Time: Understanding and Re-forming the Prison, Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death, and Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process, which received the Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Johnson has edited or co-edited six social science books, including The Pains of Imprisonment (co-edited with Hans Toch), Life without Pa-role: Living and Dying in Prison Today (co-edited with Sonia Tabriz), and A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women (co-edited with Alison Brooks Martin). Johnson is a Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Criminal Justice, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York.