Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

by Donald SHAW ( - )

The Church Militant in Prison

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of education and worldly experience" and weighing "19 stone 13 lbs" (279 lbs), a stone being 14 lbs, at the beginning of his imprisonment but not upon his release. The author writes with a reporter's keen perception and a talented novelist's ability to engage and at times amuse the reader. - Summary by Lee Smalley


Listen next episodes of Eighteen Months' Imprisonment:
Burglars “I Have Met” , “Justice Tempered With Mercy” , Retrospect , The Hospital Dead-House