This bleak and clinical account of Archer's two years in various prisons, following a travesty of inverted class justice, is not only on the level of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn but is an important contribution to British literature. With cogent remarks on prison life and the vagaries of British justice in general, he advocates three reforms which would make a huge difference at little extra cost to a system that is close to breaking point. Lacking self-pity and completely non-judgmental, with many thumb-nail sketches of the inmates. A truly monumental achievement.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 62 Autumn 2011 ) |
