A video course

Ground

Fifteen chapters. The federal criminal justice process, explained plainly by a physician who lived every part of it. For the person going through it and for the family standing beside them.

What the course covers

Read straight down the list. Each title names something real. Together they map the whole thing, from the moment you find out to what a life looks like on the other side.

  1. The Map Nobody Hands You
  2. The First Week After You Find Out
  3. What Your Lawyer Does and Does Not Do
  4. How to Talk to Your Lawyer So You Actually Get Answers
  5. The PSR: The Document That Follows You Everywhere
  6. How Sentencing Really Works
  7. What the Court Does Not Take From You
  8. The Stack: What Comes After the Court Is Done
  9. The Licensing Board
  10. The Federal Exclusion and the Lists That Outlast You
  11. Telling Your Family. Telling Your Children.
  12. When the Marriage Is Under Strain
  13. Staying Steady While You Wait
  14. The First Ninety Days After Release
  15. What a Life Looks Like After

About the author

Sonny Saggar is a physician trained at Oxford and Barts who spent twenty-five years in emergency medicine. He went through the federal system himself, studied it, and wrote about it. Ground is the map he built from that experience.

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