The rasherhouse
By: Alan Roberts.
Publisher: Collins Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Mountjoy Prison -- Fiction.; Women prisoners -- Fiction.; Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Description: An Irish novel dealing with the manner in which prisons can turn minor offenders into hardened criminals. Jailed for stealing, Mags, a 17-year-old single mother describes her introduction to drugs, sex and crime at a level she would never have experienced on the outside. A debut in fiction.