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Book Review of The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
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If you are interested in the penal system, or Leavenworth in particular, you will enjoy this book. You meet not only individual prisoners, but wardens, guards and some of their families. Earley did a very good job of being objective and still allowed you a very intimate look into a system that is a world unto itself. This book was written in the early 1990's and mostly covers the 1980's, but not a lot has changed when it comes to the penal system - a slow moving world unto itself.