Review: Reminds me of someone
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2013
I was interested in reading this book because I have had several people close to me correspond with me from prison. I have been to jail but thankfully, I have not been to prison. I felt the writer was sort of a " woe as me" type especially concerning his ex-wife. Having a sense of entitlement throughout, he complains about most everything. He thinks he deserves letters, money, his children, and a beautiful woman. He goes on about Buddhism but fails to come to any understanding of what living in the moment may entail. I feel bad for his family and friends because even if he has no remorse for his crimes, he should have a conscience about being so selfish. Perhaps that is why he didn't receive the amount of letters, visits, and money he thought he so righteously deserved. Perhaps that's why the prison gates didn't magically open. He feels sorry for himself. Yet he rarely mentions the other inmates and when he does, he appears to have little or no empathy. This is another striking example of how our prison system is irreparably broken. The men and women our courts send there are not being rehabilitated or effectively punished.