Unguarded Moments: Stories of Working Inside the Missouri State Penitentiary

by Anita Neal Harrison, Larry E. Neal, Anita Harrison, et al.

In this first memoir about life in the Missouri State Penitentiary by a worker who was neither a prisoner nor a guard, Larry E. Neal reveals a portrait of prison life very different from common conceptions. As a maintenance worker, Neal led prisoner work crews, and his stories show that life inside the prison walls could be surprisingly lighthearted, with prisoners and staff playing pranks on each other and crawling through dark tunnels together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612481108
• ISBN13: 9781612481104
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Truman State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"