Fish : a memoir of a boy in a man's prison

Select an Action

Title:

Author:

Parsell, T. J.

ISBN:

9780786717934

Personal Author:

Parsell, T. J.

Edition:

1st Carroll & Graf ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Physical Description:

xii, 324 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Camp Dearborn -- Last chance for romance -- The absence of drama -- Who's angrier than who? -- Chain reactions -- Safety in numbers -- Early induction to an inverted world -- The big blue wagon ride -- Prison transfer -- Convict orientation -- Quarantine -- Riverside correctional facility -- Lasting impressions -- Slide step's squeeze -- Lessons in streetball - Blemished masculinities -- What's in a name anyway? -- Careful what you ask for -- Taken by surprise -- Compromising choices -- What's my lie? -- What's under the covers? -- Help ain't gonna come runnin' no time soon -- You never know where it's coming from -- When all else fails -- Black Panther -- Greener grass -- Consider yourself part of the family -- The oracle -- Head games and power trips -- Go for the grab-- Wolf tickets -- Broken promises -- I will arise and go now.

Personal Subject:

Parsell, T. J.

Subject Term:

Prisons -- United States.

Male rape -- United States.

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168020391823	365.973 P266F 2006	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell's experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence. In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America's leading spokespeople for prison reform, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.