The Joy
Pages: 192
|Published: 1 Jul 1996
Description
One man's story of life in Mountjoy Prison - Ireland's most notorious prison - as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate lifestyle of a junkie; bullying and savage beatings among the prisoners; ingenious drug-smuggling ploys; the despairing cry for help of a failed suicide attempt. But alongside the pain there is humour -- from the hilarity of World Cup celebrations to the distraction of a beautiful aerobics teacher, from bingeing on altar wine to the shortest-ever ""hunger strike. "" The first ever glimpse of Mountjoy Prison -- from the inside.
