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Victorian Prison Lives
Victorian Prison Lives
    Victorian Prison Lives is
    the first account of the
    process of imprisionment
    in England between 1830
    and 1914 to be drawn
    largely from the writings
    of prisoners themselves.
    The period was in some
    ways one of great change,
    beginning with an
    astonishing penitentiary
    experiement when prisons
    were seen as moral
    hospitals. But this
    approach eventually gave
    way to the idea of penal
    servitude and created a
    legacy of harshness and
    suffering still preserved
    in the reputations of
    Portland Chatham and
    Dartmoor. It was only
    towards the end of the
    period that the concept
    of modern prison
    administration began to
    emerge. But while
    statutary changes where
    taking place there was an
    underlying continuity.
    This is examined in a
    series of chapters on
    every aspect of prison
    life - from admission
    procedure, fellow
    prisoners and the nature
    of hard labour, diet and
    discipline to the process
    of release, which for a
    long-term prisioner could
    be as daunting as entry
    into prison.
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Streetwise: Stories From An Irish Prison
Streetwise: Stories From An
Irish Prison
    Every day the population
    of Ireland wakes up to
    reports of another horror
    case of crime. The
    streets have become
    unsafe to walk upon and
    yet nothing seems to be
    done about it.
    Politicians make noises
    voicing their disgust
    while the police make
    arrests only to have the
    perpetrators walk free.
    Despite all the media
    hype, no one seems to be
    any nearer to solving the
    problem.Streetwise
    reveals what is really
    happening on the streets.
    The stories contained
    here are told by
    prisoners: those who have
    been involved in crime
    and are now paying their
    debt to society,
    allowing the reader to
    enter the minds of
    criminals and begin to
    understand the
    circumstances behind
    their actions. Meet
    Chang, who started
    joyriding at eight years
    old and was infamous
    among police and
    legendary among fellow
    law-breakers by the age
    of 12; Mucka, a once
    saintly schoolboy who was
    abandoned by both his
    family and society so
    took to robbing as a form
    of revenge; PJ, man of
    the house and breadwinner
    at 11, alcoholic by 12;
    and Tommy, the divorc
    who was refused social
    welfare so robbed the
    Co-op of a million Euros
    and soon found the local
    wing of the IRA knocking
    at his door. An
    exhilarating, emotional
    roller coaster, Street
    Wise contains frank
    accounts from those who
    have succumbed to crime
    through boredom, poverty
    or desperation. It shows
    how men from different
    backgrounds have fallen
    into similar crime traps
    and what has finally
    placed them on the path
    to redemption.
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Lone Brit on 13: A Prisoner
Lone Brit On 13: A Prisoner's
Hell In Spain's Toughest Jail
    The Lone Brit on 13 is a
    gripping true story of
    violence, degradation
    and adventure penned in
    the confines of a grim
    Malaga prison cell.
    Imprisoned for
    drug-smuggling, the lone
    Brit on Wing 13, Chance,
    reveals the horrors he
    experienced among
    cut-throat villains and
    screws in the netherworld
    of the Spanish prison
    system.Chance takes to
    writing in his dank
    prison cell in an attempt
    to escape his
    surroundings and recalls
    various episodes in his
    life: his time serving as
    a soldier in Thailand and
    Malaysia; his involvement
    with the 3 Para
    snatch-squad in the 1970s
    Belfast; and his
    subsequent descent into
    drug dealing and
    trafficking, which
    culminated in a
    high-speed boat chase and
    his imprisonment in a
    top-security Spanish
    prison. While inside,
    Chance fought his way to
    the surface of a cesspool
    of iniquitous scumbags
    using his fists: the only
    effective means of being
    understood in an
    environment of desecrated
    morality and non-existent
    integrity. With predators
    lurking everywhere,
    Chance had to be
    constantly on guard and
    in order to survive he
    had to be mentally
    prepared to inflict the
    necessary violent
    retribution on any
    would-be attacker or
    racist thug. As the sole
    British inmate, Chance
    was a prime target for
    the intimidating Spanish
    hardmen who thrived on
    cruelty and treachery.
    But his martial arts
    skills and Samurai
    philosophy proved to be
    more than a match for the
    aggressors. Once a
    respected and successful
    businessman admired by
    his peers - he had
    operated his own martial
    arts business in Spain
    before being jailed -
    Chance took one wrong
    turn in life and lost
    everything except the
    love and support of his
    loyal wife.
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Carabanchel: The Last Brit in Europe
Carabanchel: The Last Brit In
Europe's Hellhole Prison
    This is a true story of
    survival in what was
    arguably the most
    sinister prison in
    Europe: the Carabanchel.
    Christopher Chance was
    the last Brit to be
    shackled and hauled out
    of that infamous Spanish
    hellhole before it closed
    its gates on decades of
    disgraceful cruelty.
    Along with the rest of
    the remaining inmates,
    he was transferred to
    another prison when the
    authorities slid back the
    bolts for the last
    time.

    Chance
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Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
Escape: The True Story Of The
Only Westerner Ever To Break
Out Of The Bangkok Hilton
    Klong Prem prison,
    Thailand. The 'Bangkok
    Hilton', where 600
    foreigners wait and rot
    among the 12, 000
    inmates. Amidst the
    tragic, ruthless and
    forgotten, one man
    resolves to do what no
    other has done:
    escape.

    This is
    the true story of drug
    smuggler David McMillan's
    perilous break-out from
    Asia's most notorious
    prison. After being
    arrested at Don Muang
    airport, McMillan spent
    over a year in Klong Plem
    awaiting trial. He
    watched as the other
    foreign prisoners fell
    prey to disease,
    violence and despair.
    Death appeared to be
    their only way out, but
    he resolved that this
    would not be the end for
    him.

    Two weeks
    before a near-certain
    death sentence, McMillan
    escaped, never to be
    seen in Thailand again.
    In this gripping account,
    he reveals the nightmare
    of existence in this
    infamous jail and
    explains how he made his
    hazardous
    jailbreak.
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