Prisons are my life
Prisons. They have been my life. I’m not young any more and when I look back at the decades spent in prisons I wonder if I could not have spent all that time in some other field. Could I have done more for my fellow humans if I had been a surgeon or a civil engineer or a businessman, or even a writer – God help me?
Maybe in all of those fields I would have been a more useful human being. On the other hand, maybe not.
The truth is that crime and criminals, the crass and the convicted: they have always fascinated me more than other people do. Whether I could have served people better in some other field, never came into my original decision to enter the prison service.
God help me, but I love prisons and working among the men in them. And I always will.
The Classifier