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Hard Time: A Brit in America's Toughest Jail (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Hard TimeUsing a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall, Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs, "Jon's Jail Journal", excerpts of which were published in "The Guardian". This book gives an account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of gang violence, insect infested cells and food unfit for animals.
Full description- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
- Published: 05 August 2010
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Penology & Punishment | Prisons
- ISBN 13: 9781845966515 ISBN 10: 1845966511
- Sales rank: 39,158
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Review from Prison Mom
I first met Shaun Attwood about four years ago via his prison blog, jonsjailjournal. I was an average middle class mom trying to navigate the American prison system. My son was a first time offender with a third degree murder charge pending. Nothing could have prepared me for the shock, the insanity, the absolute uncertainty of dealing with the local and state penal institutions. I was frantically searching out some real, true information about what to expect inside and how to deal. Shaun's entries in his blog were the first glimmer of a voice of reason and hope that I truly felt. Up until then I did not know how our family would survive.
It was my pleasure to befriend Shaun and begin a writing relationship, and see his story unfold in real time and then on paper as he worked in earnest to realize the goal of actually fleshing out a book. And the finally to read in print what I saw him experience-this is the truest account I have ever read of what prison life is like, told with gritty reality, Shaun's signature laid back and witty Brit humor (sorry, observed from a Yank's point of view) and absolute truth. He is incapable of lying about the people he met and the experiences he went through. In my opinion this book should be text book reading for high school students, whom he now addresses about the subject in person.
Shaun's friendship, his honesty and clear-eyed look at the American prison system and what he experienced personally helped my family survive. His book is as real as it gets. I hope that other readers will get to know the man and the story-it is compelling truth. by Susan Obaza
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