Life Inside

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A chilling look into the brutality of life behind bars & what it’s like to be locked away with some of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Widely known in the criminal underworld as the ‘ Black Widow’, Linda Calvey spent the first half of her life running with the UK’s top gangsters, robbing banks & rubbing shoulders with the Kray twins. That is, until, in 1990, her lover Robbie Cook was murdered at point-blank, & she found herself falsely convicted. Linda was sent away for decades, & would go on to become Britain’s longest-serving female prisoner. This is her story of life inside, & how she learnt to survive the many years she spent behind bars. Detailing the systems, characters & rules of prison life, as well as her encounters with notorious criminals Charles Bronson, Rose West & Myra Hindley, Linda gives a full account of her time locked up. Featuring stories of fights, riots, dodgy dealings & what happens when a prison officer gets taken hostage, this is a grit...