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Title: Fish
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
Author: T. J. Parsell
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0786720379
EAN: 9780786720378
ISBN: 9780786720378
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
Genre: Biography
Release Date: 31/08/2007
Description: When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell's experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence. In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America's leading spokespeople for prison reform, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 127mm
Release Year: 2007

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