Life In Prison: Eight Hours at a Time [Hardcover]

Robert Reilly served aseven-year termas a prison guard inPennsylvania and Maine. Entering Americas industrial prison system in searchof a way to support his young family, the struggling musician found himself ina looking-glass world where, often, only the uniforms distinguished guards fromprisoners. This is Reillys story of doing time.This is a must readfor anyone interested in a truly authentic look at life behind the walls.He holds nothingback, relating a hellish experience in gripping, scary detail, well-earned pageby well-earned page. Reader be warned: Theres no escape from Life in Prison.Robert Reilly is aborn and inspired storyteller who knows his craft as well as he knows hissubject. His voice is an authentic howl, as true as a blues singers coming outof the swamps of hell.Take a man, anartist, musician, writer, and cast him down into the stone steel hell ofprison, but not as an inmate, as a guard, with all the pressures and dangersand bizarre human interactions inherent in that situation and you have thesetting for a powerful, brutally honest and inspiring book that will touch,shock and ultimately heal all those who read it...