This is raw and powerful writing but a book that doesn’t shy away from telling the reader exactly how awful a Young
Offenders’ Institution is for a first-timer.
Aged seventeen, Lee is inside for a crime he has committed. And he
soon finds out that prison is not the holiday camp he's heard about.
Warned to 'play by the rules' he has to decide whose rules - the
screws' or the other cons'. Life in a YOI is about survival. But the
real struggle is inside Lee himself. Is he destined to be a 'career
con' or can he choose to change his life?