Buy this book on-line MACSHANE, DENIS: : PRISON DIARIESLONDON.BITEBACK PUBLISHING LTD.,2014. ISBN 9781849547628.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white+ lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned but clean and foxing-free, fore-edges generally bright and clean with some minimal thumbing(?); contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Book has slight spine roll.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,x-xivpp +2-376pp[paginated] includes cast of characters, author's Introduction,3 sections in diary form covering December 2013,January 2014 and February 2014 and an Afterword; plus [unpaginated] publisher's advertisement,half-title+title pages,a Contents list/table and to he rear of the book,b/w photographic reproduction of prisoner's ID card,4pp b/w photographic illustrated publisher's adverts for other political book titles and 5pp blanks.
Two days before Christmas 2013,former MP Denis MacShane entered one of Europe's harshest prisons.Having pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey,he had been sentenced to six months in jail.Upon arrival at Belmarsh Prison,his books and personal possessions were confiscated and he was locked in a solitary cell for up to twenty-three hours a day.Denis was the latest MP condemned to serve as an example in the wake of the expenses scandal.
Written with scavenged pens and scraps of paper,this diary is a compelling account of his extraordinary experiences in Belmarsh and later, Brixton.Recording the lives of his fellow pisoners,he discovers a humility and a willingness to admit mistakes that was conspicuously lacking in his former colleagues at the House of Commons.
Woven into a narrative are though-provoking reflections on a range of important topics,from the waning of public confidence in MPs - and the high-profile termination of his own political career - to the failings of the British judicial system.
Above all,'Prison Diaries' reveals what life as a prisoner in Britain is really like,addressing issues such as rising inmate numbers, dehumanising conditions,high incarceration rates,lack of rehabilitation and an endemic political disinterest.This honest and fascinating diary is both a first-hand account and insight into the current prison syatem and a report on how it simply does not work.
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