Life Without Parole

In 1981, law-school graduate Victor Hassine was convicted of a capital offense and sentenced to prison for life without parole. Based on his experiences as an inmate, this book offers a firsthand account of conditions in contemporary American prisons. It discusses the consequences of the War on Drugs, prison overcrowding, rape, gangs, AIDS, prison politics, and recent demographic changes in inmate populations. Victor hassine passed away in 2008. This new edition will include an afterword by Hassine's collaborator and editor Robert Johnson on suicide in prison.