Some people are irreparably damaged. Michael Anderson is not one of them.          The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, religion, race, the purpose of punishment, and a criminal justice system that requires harmless old men to die in prison. The book describes Michael Anderson' s broken childhood, his anti-social behaviors and crimes, and his spiritual and moral transformation while enduring ten life sentences in Washington state prisons.        Central to the story is the evolving five-decade friendship between Anderson, a black man raised on the hard streets of Chicago's ...