Winner of the Western States Arts Federation Book Award for Creative NonfictionHis manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldnt stop writing. By turns savagely funny and deeply moving, his stories have won praise from writers like Norman Mailer, Alan Sillitoe, and Amiri Baraka.In a spare, bold style that cuts to the heart of what incarceration does to people, Washington looks at crime and criminals, relationships, games, scams, and the secret lives of men who live in iron houses.