There is a dark heart to American society, far removed from the sunny uplands of ‘have a nice day’. The ‘land of the free’ is also the land of the incarcerated, of the electric chair and the lethal injection, of three strikes and you’re out (life without parole for sometimes minor felonies), and of Guantánamo Bay.

Literary Review

Jul 2012

Categories

Robert Chesshyre

Paper Trail

Living at the End of a Barrel

Third Race Relations

Lonely at the Bottom

Acts of God

The Whole 22 Yards

Beyond Bristol

Jailhouse Blues

Fathers of the Nation

Scoop

Snapping The Depression

Teddy Dear

His Life and Times

The Man Who Listened

Tearing Up the Boundary

Road to Nowhere

Prison Break

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