Seven Long Times Author:Piri Thomal "Don't use those Goddamn jailhouses for revenge, 'cause a lot of us will wait impatiently for our time to come and go outside rehabilitated all right, but for the worst. You can't strip us of our humanity and then turn us loose..." — This was part of a letter that Piri Thomas wrote but did not dare send to the board considering his application fo... more »r parole. Now that term of parole is over--and Piri Thomas has revealed precisely what it is like behind the walls of a maximum security prison, what it does to guards and inmates, and why and how it must be changed before it is too late. Piri Thomas managed to survive his seven-year prison purgatory, but he has never forgotten the hellish ordeal or the men who are still undergoing it. After reading this extraordinary work, neither will you.« less