The Life of a Correctional Officer...A collection of experiences. (SNAP)

A fascinating look into a maximum security facility...into the lives of the forgotten and of those who try to keep the peace among them. From the criminally insane to sociopaths to the common criminal and career criminal; Michael Morris has met and dealt with them all. Working his way from correctional officer to corporal to sergeant, Morris has years of hands-on experience with the men behind some of the most heinous crimes that have ever been committed within the United States.

If you are looking for a gritty, true-life perspective, crave to look beyond the walls of a maximum security penitentiary without compromising your safety or leaving your comfort zone, Morris's collection of stories based on his years working within a maximum security environment is sure to please and horrify. This, his first piece of short work, entitled SNAP is only the beginning of what he has to share. His accounts are definitely not for the faint of heart but absolutely for those who earnestly want to know what it is like to walk a day in the duty boots of a correctional officer.

Michael Morris was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and today resides in rural Virginia where he enjoys a much less turbulent life and spends his days as far away from prison walls as possible. It is his desire to inform the average citizen of what is potentially as close to you as the house next door or the person in the car behind you. The monsters come from the most ordinary of places and from the darkest of psyches and it is the correctional officers in this country who ultimately keep the most vicious of these dragons at bay. The monsters in these accounts are not the ones that were under your bed or in your closet as a child; these are the living, breathing men of flesh and blood that are forgotten by many but scarcely gone.

Hold on for the ride.

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