Product Review

Gathered from more than four hundred submissions nationwide, the thirty-nine pieces in this updated and expanded digital edition represent works by a broad spectrum of prisoners: young and old, unknown and infamous, minimum security check forgers and death row inmates. Included are works by notorious "Preppie Murderer" Robert Chambers; former Latin Kings member Lalo Gomez; and serial murderer Michael Ross, the first person to be executed in New England since 1960. All write in their own uncensored words about themselves and their families, about their motives and personal demons, about committing crime and doing time.

Just as this collection gives prisoners the rare chance to communicate who they are and what might have gone wrong, it also gives the reader a unique opportunity to see convicts not as hardened criminals but as human beings.