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In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to
find a corpse in his living room. Fearing that he would be held
responsible, and sensing that his wife was somehow involved, he
wanted to do all he could to protect his young family. Jamie worked
through the night to dispose of the body, all the while
disbelieving the situation he found himself in. But his luck ran
out days later, as he was arrested and sentenced to thirteen years
in prison. Jamie entered the American prison system and was to stay
there for 34 years with stints in San Quentin, Folsom State Prison
and the notorious Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in California.
He would rub shoulders with some of the world's most infamous
serial killers such as Charles Manson, Edmund Kemper, Charles Tex
Watson and Herbie Mullin, as well as gangs such as the Aryan
Brotherhood and Mexican cartels. This book tells of his time locked
up with no hope of release, living the brutality of the tough and
unforgiving American penitentiary system, and finding his new
purpose in life. As well as tales of his many run-ins with some of
the world's most dangerous inmates. For the first time ever, he
tells his story. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, no matter how incredible it may sound.
Prison is a word which conjures up different things to the people
who hear it. To some, it is a place where people are simply locked
away for a period of time, away from society. Others may think it
is place where torture, fear, violence and hopelessness are common
place, whereas some may think it a place of rehabilitation. Then
there are those who believe it is a state of mind. In the
best-selling '34 Years In Hell', author Jamie Morgan Kane told the
story of how, after being born on the Isle of Man, he was taken to
Canada as a baby and then transported into the United States of
America where, at the age of 14, he was sold to an American couple
to replace, as he found out many years later, a child they had
previously adopted who had mysteriously disappeared. He recounted
how he had joined the US military the day he left school in the
belief that he was an American citizen; how circumstances persuaded
him to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, and how that had
resulted in him being sentenced to prison for more than three
decades. Since then, he has been asked many times: "But what was
prison really like?" This new follow-up book attempts to answer
that question. This is the ultimate guide to what it's like to be
behind bars in America. It lays bare the day-to-day existence of
prisoners and the hustles they get up to in order to survive. It is
a fascinating, sometimes shocking and raw account of life at its
most brutal.
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