Don't Blame Me: The Convict Chronicles — Jonathan Z. Queen

Prisons are a breeding ground for thieves, rapists and murderers to congregate and plot ways to become better criminals. This stereotype is glorified by many authors who write about the violent and predatory prison environment while never touching on the emotional and human side of a convict...until now:Jonathan Queen's Don't Blame Me: The Convict Chronicles; is a collection of short stories that will take you on a journey behind the walls and barbed wire fences of America 's Prison system and into the hearts and minds of its convicts as well as their loved ones.You'll go on a visit with a lifer and the daughter he hasn't seen in 14 years. You'll witness a drive-by shooting through the eyes of a 3-year old; you'll read a letter written by the illiterate hand of a dying man, and find out why a young girl is accused of killing her father. You will watch an innocent man fight for love and freedom and lose both; and you will discover the disturbing ways in which five inmates react when it slips out that one of them has tested positive for HIV.