THE JOY Mountjoy Jail - The Shocking True Story of Life Inside

Paperback. Reprint. One man's story of life in The Joy - compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to the author, a journalist. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate lifestyle of a junkie; bullying and savage beatings among the prisoners; ingenious drug-smuggling ploys; the despairing cry for help of a failed suicide attempt. But alongside the pain there is humour - from the hilarity of World Cup celebrations to the distraction of a beautiful aerobics teacher, from bingeing on altar wine to the shortest ever 'hunger strike'. The first ever glimpse of Mountjoy from the inside. Illus. with photographs + Glossary. 187pp. p/back. With signs of b/plate removal inside fr. cover o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.