Hard time: a Brit in America’s toughest jail. Shaun Attwood. 2010.

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Brought up in England, Shaun took his business degree to Phoenix, Arizona where he became an award-winning stockbroker and then a millionaire day trader during the dot.com bubble. But Shaun was leading a double life. A fan of the early rave scene in Manchester, he formed an organisation that threw raves and distributed Class A drugs. Before being convicted of money laundering and drug dealing, he served 26 months in the infamous Arizona jail system run by the notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Hard Time is the harrowing yet often darkly humorous account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of gang violence, insect-infected cells and food unfit for human consumption. His remarkable story provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy, brutality, comedy and eccentricity of prison life.