Monkey off my back
Subtitle: an ex-convict and addict relates his discovery of personal freedom
By: by Jack Brown, as told to Allen Groff
Contributors: Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection; Groff, Allen
Publisher: Zondervan Pub. House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Grand Rapids
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Prisoners; Biography; Drug addicts
Description: Jack Brown. A biting, flamboyant character. He was a junkie, con-man, convict and killer. Jack has spent more time in prisons than most people have on their jobs. Jack was a con-man who had to "earn" tons of money to support his drug habit, but the trail of easy money always led back to the same place -- stone walls, iron bars, guards. Sure, Jack knew men of underworld infamy -- "Machine Gun" Kelley, Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, the "birdman of Alcatraz," and all. But they didn't help him. Jack was in and out of hospitals and penitentiaries like they had revolving doors. But they didn't help either. Jack's story of prison life is unbelievable -- of beatings, fights, riots, rotten guards, murders, immoralities of every description -- but the real story is in the way he escaped all this. All because of a wife, a family, a God, all who refused to give up on him. - Back cover.