Andy West

Ideas are substitutes for griefs

MARCEL PROUST

By my guilt I further gained the right to intelligence

JEAN GENET

There is no such thing as the prison or the prisoner. There are a multitude of prisons and each person in prison has their own experience.

Whilst this book aims to capture something of that plurality, it is foremost written from my subjective viewpoint as someone who had family in prison and now teaches inside.