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"Different to any other book on prison. Compelling and quite breath-taking in its scope of insights, giving a voice to the only people that really know" - Erwin James. If you ask people who've just left prison about their experiences of being inside, their responses are fascinating and often quite frightening. If you ask professionals - such as prison officers, governors, probation officers, psychologists and teachers - to talk truthfully about their work within prisons and the criminal justice system, and you guarantee them anonymity, their responses are also fascinating, but highly revealing too. And when you read these stories together, you notice threads and themes that not only tell stories of personal redemption and endurance, of fear and violence, but of an insular environment that hides many of its challenges and secrets from the public. Professionals are not allowed to speak to the press and would be disciplined or sacked for doing so. There are valid reasons for this and the tax-paying public should know the truth. Newspapers, computers and televisions bring us statistics and stories on an almost weekly basis: prisoners off their heads on drink and drugs; self-harm and suicide rates rising to a record high; an understaffed and underfunded prison service; a specialist team of counter-terrorism experts aimed at tackling extremism; mindless violence captured on contraband mobile phones; inmates taking over whole wings during riots. How has government policy impacted upon all those affected? Are criminals leaving as better people, less likely to commit crime? What's the difference between high security, local and young offender prisons? Hundreds of terrorists have been imprisoned in the past decade -what affect does this have upon the prison population? Are psychologists, probation officers and teachers helping rehabilitate vulnerable and volatile criminals or simply ticking boxes? What is the effect on mothers, daughters and other family members when their loved ones are incarcerated? Do prisons actually work? And what kind of future are we heading towards?
About the Author: Richard W Hardwick is a writer, writing tutor and publisher. His first novel "Kicked Out" was published by Beautiful Books in 2009, becoming Waterstone's Recommended Read and Borders Book of the Month. The following is a quote from Patricia J Delois, author of 'Bufflehead Sisters' - British Arts Council and YouWriteOn.com Book of the Year in 2007. "The narrative is so strong, the characters and dialogue so real, the situation so heart breaking. This is masterful and should win several literary prizes" The second book? Not quite what he expected ... When Richard's partner Anna was diagnosed with breast cancer he wrote everything down because it was the only way he could cope. Then the results of her operation came through and they were the worst possible. And so he wrote about their past adventures in Israel, Amsterdam and Greece too - because he was afraid she wouldn't be alive to help him remember it for their young children. But when Hardwick wove the two threads into a book he was advised by the publishing industry to turn it into a novel instead. And so he set up his own publishing company, Lapwing Books, instead. When 'Andalucía' was finished, he sent a copy to one of his literary heroes, multi-million selling novelist Pat Barker. And to his relief, the former Booker Prize winner loved it... "Told with courage, humour and love, Andalucía weaves past and present with great skill so the pace of the narrative never falters. There is a zest for life on every page of this book which I found both moving and inspiring" Janette Jenkins, author of 'Little Bones' and 'Angel of Brooklyn' had the following to say about 'Andalucia' ... "This absolutely captivated me. I couldn't put it down. One of the best books I've read...breath-taking"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780956955586
  • Publisher: Lapwing Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Lapwing Books
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 308 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0956955584
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Prisoners, Professionals and Families Speak Out
  • Width: 133 mm


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