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The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.

Contains:
Blood – but not as much as you might imagine
Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap
Tears – because prison has created a mental health crisis
Humanity – and how to stop the institution destroying it

Featuring contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby.

‘Essential reading’
Will Self

‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’
Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London

‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’
Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’



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A beautiful, heart-breaking, hopeful, humorous, and insightful analysis of the UK’s industrial prison complex. It touches on everything from the deportation of foreign national prisoners, to how to brew vodka in your cell, and looking for a job on release. * The Sociological Review *

Prison: A Survival Guide

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Ebury Press
      Published 20 June 2019
      ISBN-13 9781529103496
      978-1529103496
      ISBN-10 1529103495
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      Biography Memoirs Politics, Philosophy & Society Penology and punishment

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.

      Contains:
      Blood – but not as much as you might imagine
      Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap
      Tears – because prison has created a mental health crisis
      Humanity – and how to stop the institution destroying it

      Featuring contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby.

      ‘Essential reading’
      Will Self

      ‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’
      Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London

      ‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’
      Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’



      Trade Review
      A beautiful, heart-breaking, hopeful, humorous, and insightful analysis of the UK’s industrial prison complex. It touches on everything from the deportation of foreign national prisoners, to how to brew vodka in your cell, and looking for a job on release. * The Sociological Review *

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