This is a revealing and challenging first-person piece, an excellent and affecting example of its genre. The overall impression is of an environment that is loud, jarringly loud; replete with inmates (if this diarist is representative) whose potential to change/make amends is being squandered by the prison system. The piece is filled the mundane details of daily life behind bars: smoke breaks, watching ricki lake, endless hours in the cell. The diarist is honest and intimate, and the piece is seamlessly constructed.
Comments for Doing Time: John's Diary
This piece belongs to the series "Prison Diaries"
Produced by Radio Diaries/Joe Richman
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Helen Woodward
Posted on January 12, 2004 at 10:18 AM | Permalink
Review of Doing Time: John's Diary
This is a revealing and challenging first-person piece, an excellent and affecting example of its genre. The overall impression is of an environment that is loud, jarringly loud; replete with inmates (if this diarist is representative) whose potential to change/make amends is being squandered by the prison system. The piece is filled the mundane details of daily life behind bars: smoke breaks, watching ricki lake, endless hours in the cell. The diarist is honest and intimate, and the piece is seamlessly constructed.