Hard Time: New Edition
Book Details
Author(s)
Shaun Attwood
Publisher
Gadfly Press
ISBN / ASIN
B00OJZKUT8
ISBN-13
978B00OJZKUT2
Sales Rank
#415,441
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
“Makes the Shawshank Redemption look like a holiday camp” - News of the World
Growing up in industrial England, Shaun Attwood yearned for the American Dream. He moved to Arizona with only student credit cards and became a stock-market millionaire. But after throwing Ecstasy parties for thousands of ravers, Shaun bumped heads with Sammy the Bull Gravano, an Italian Mafia mass murderer, who put a hit out on him.
The dream turned into a nightmare when a SWAT team smashed Shaun’s door down. Inside Arizona’s deadliest jail, Shaun struggled to survive in a netherworld of gang violence and drug-fuelled mayhem. Over time and bolstered by the love of his fiancée and family, he used incarceration for learning and introspection.
With a tiny pencil sharpened on a cell door, Shaun documented the conditions: dead rats in the food, cockroaches crawling in his ears, skulls getting cracked against toilets… Smuggled out of maximum-security and posted online, his writing shone the international media spotlight on the subhuman conditions in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail.
Join best-selling author and drugs educator Shaun Attwood on a harrowing voyage into the darkest recesses of human existence in Hard Time. This remarkable story provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy, brutality, comedy and eccentricity of prison life.
Growing up in industrial England, Shaun Attwood yearned for the American Dream. He moved to Arizona with only student credit cards and became a stock-market millionaire. But after throwing Ecstasy parties for thousands of ravers, Shaun bumped heads with Sammy the Bull Gravano, an Italian Mafia mass murderer, who put a hit out on him.
The dream turned into a nightmare when a SWAT team smashed Shaun’s door down. Inside Arizona’s deadliest jail, Shaun struggled to survive in a netherworld of gang violence and drug-fuelled mayhem. Over time and bolstered by the love of his fiancée and family, he used incarceration for learning and introspection.
With a tiny pencil sharpened on a cell door, Shaun documented the conditions: dead rats in the food, cockroaches crawling in his ears, skulls getting cracked against toilets… Smuggled out of maximum-security and posted online, his writing shone the international media spotlight on the subhuman conditions in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail.
Join best-selling author and drugs educator Shaun Attwood on a harrowing voyage into the darkest recesses of human existence in Hard Time. This remarkable story provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy, brutality, comedy and eccentricity of prison life.
