*The Animal Factory* goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whose shot at a short two-year stint in the can is threatened from inside and outside. He's got to ke
The Animal Factory
β Scribed by California State Prison at San Quentin.;Bunker, Edward;California State Prison at San Quentin
- Book ID
- 100755322
- Publisher
- Einaudi; Oldcastle Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- Italian
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Harpenden
- ISBN
- 1842437577
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β¦ Synopsis
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; The Animal Factory; Copyright.;Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag", Earl Copen. Copen is well in with the White Brotherhood just one of the many White, Black and Chicano gangs in constant brutal conflict in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is tested by Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads to an act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote chance of escape. Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison life where life is cheap and death by shiv awaits.
β¦ Subjects
California State Prison at San Quentin
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