Prison Life in Maxium Security

Most of us are fortunate to know about prison life only from fictionalized accounts - from what we see on television or in the movies, from what we read in novels. But in The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, Pete Earley presents us with an unvarnished view of what life is like inside this maximum security federal prison. The picture that he paints of this home to 1400 of some of the country's most dangerous criminals is built upon visits and interviews that he conducted over a two-year period. Although Earley includes information from the guards' perspective and information on how the prison is run, the primary goal of ht book is to present to readers the perspective of what it is like to be an inmate

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