Hard Time 2nd Edition: Banged Up Abroad Raving Arizona: Volume 2 (The English Shaun Trilogy) - Tapa blanda

Growing up in industrial England, Shaun Attwood yearned for the American Dream. He moved to Arizona with only student credit cards and became a stock-market millionaire. But after throwing Ecstasy parties for thousands of ravers, Shaun bumped heads with Sammy the Bull Gravano, an Italian Mafia mass murderer, who put a hit out on him. The dream turned into a nightmare when a SWAT team smashed Shaun’s door down. Inside Arizona’s deadliest jail, Shaun struggled to survive in a netherworld of gang violence and drug-fuelled mayhem. Over time and bolstered by the love of his fiancée and family, he used incarceration for learning and introspection. With a tiny pencil sharpened on a cell door, Shaun documented the conditions: dead rats in the food, cockroaches crawling in his ears, skulls getting cracked against toilets... Smuggled out of maximum-security and posted online, his writing shone the international media spotlight on the subhuman conditions in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail. Join best-selling author and drugs educator Shaun Attwood on a harrowing voyage into the darkest recesses of human existence in Hard Time. This remarkable story provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy, brutality, comedy and eccentricity of prison life.

As shown on TV worldwide on Nat Geo’s Locked Up/Banged Up Abroad, Hard Time is the story of how Shaun Attwood, an educated Englishman, survived Arizona’s deadliest jail run by “America's toughest sheriff,” Joe Arpaio.