Prison Time

Prison Time

If you like the <i>Shawshank Redemption</i>, you will love <i>Prison Time</i><i>.</i><br /><br /><i>Prison Time</i>, the sequel to <i>Hard Time</i>, is the story of Shaun Attwood's journey through the Arizona Department of Corrections and his deportation to England.<br /><br />Sentenced to 9½ years in Arizona's state prison for distributing Ecstasy, Shaun finds himself living among gang members, sexual predators and drug-crazed psychopaths. After being attacked by a 20-stone California biker, Shaun writes about the prisoners who befriend, protect and inspire him. They include T-Bone, a massive African American ex-Marine who risks his life saving vulnerable inmates from rape, and Two Tonys, an old-school Mafia murderer who left the corpses of his rivals from Tucson to Alaska. They teach Shaun how to turn incarceration to his advantage, and to learn from his mistakes.<br /><br />Shaun is no stranger to love and lust in the heterosexual world, but the tables are turned on him inside. As well as the ever-present threat of rape, sexual advances come at Shaun from all directions, some cleverly disguised, others more sinister - making Shaun question his sexual identity. <i>Prison Time</i> is the first ever book to detail the sex lives of prisoners.<br /><br />Resigned to living alongside violent, mentally-ill and drug-addicted inmates, Shaun immerses himself in psychology and philosophy to try to make sense of his past behaviour, and begins applying what he learns as he adapts to prison life. Encouraged by Two Tonys to explore fiction as well, Shaun reads over 1000 books which, with support from brilliant psychotherapist Dr. Owen, speed along his personal development. As his ability to deflect daily threats improves, Shaun begins to look forward to his release with optimism and a new love waiting for him. Yet the words of Aristotle from one of Shaun's books will prove prophetic: "We cannot learn without pain."