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List of contents
1. Entry into the Criminal Justice System.
2. After Conviction.
3. From the Pierce County Jail to the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta.
4. USP Atlanta: First Encounters.
5. Prison Society.
6. Managing Chaos.
7. FCI McKean: A New Experience.
8. A Prison Disturbance at McKean.
9. Fort Dix: Low-Security Living.
10. My Own Way of Surviving the Sentence.
11. A Prisoner''s Suggestions.
About the author
Michael G. Santos began his life as a federal prisoner in 1987, at age twenty-three, in a maximum-security prison. Since then, he has spent a few years as a medium-security prisoner, and he is now confined in the low-security prison at Fort Dix, in New Jersey. While confined, Santos has completed a BA and a MS degree in criminal justice and is now working to help educate both the prison population and those outside of prison walls about prison life.
Summary
In this unique and extraordinary text, Michael G. Santos helps others learn about the abnormal way of life behind the walls and fences of prisons. To provide readers with a more complete and realistic picture of the growing subculture that exists in prison, the author provides both his own experiences and observations of living as a prisoner, as well as dialogues, vignettes, and profiles of other prisoners and workers within the prison environment. This text addresses the unprecedented growth in the prison system over the past two decades, and asks future correctional professionals to critically examine the current prison system.
