Life in Strangeways - From Riots to Redemption, My 32 Years Behind Bars

Alan Lord and Anita Armstrong

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784186319
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge.After experiencing a troubled childhood during which Alan was in and out of children's homes - after being put into care at the tender age of eighteen months old - Alan was a teenager in 1981 when he was sentenced to life in prison for murder during a robbery that had gone badly wrong. He served thirty-two years in various prisons throughout the United Kingdom. This book tells the truth of what goes on behind prison walls and exposes the level of inhumane treatment and brutality that Alan had to endure throughout his thirty-two year journey, during which he never stopped standing up for human rights.Fighting against the degrading prison system of the late twentieth century, Alan helped change the historical humiliating slop out and weekly shower that hundreds of thousands of prisoners had to adhere to throughout the centuries. The battle came at a cost though as it meant more time behind bars, time spent mainly in the segregation unit.Powerfully detailing the way prisoners are treated on a daily basis, Life in Strangeways is a gripping tale that will change the perception of Alan Lord: convicted murderer and riot leader.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• AUTHOR’S PREFACE: 32 YEARS LOCKED AWAY IN PRISON
• CHAPTER ONE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• CHAPTER TWO: THE EARLY YEARS
• CHAPTER THREE: THE REBELLIOUS YEARS
• CHAPTER FOUR: FIRST TASTE OF PRISON LIFE
• CHAPTER FIVE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
• CHAPTER SIX: STARTING MY SENTENCE
• CHAPTER SEVEN: TRYING TO SETTLE DOWN
• CHAPTER EIGHT: FOUR YEARS IN FRANKLAND
• CHAPTER NINE: PROGRESSION
• CHAPTER TEN: BACK TO WHERE I STARTED
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: A STORM BREWING
• CHAPTER TWELVE: PROTEST IN THE CHAPEL
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ESCAPE FROM ASTLEY BRIDGE
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SUNDAY MORNING BLUES
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: HUNGER WITH A VIEW
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE STRANGEWAYS TRIAL
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: SECOND ESCAPE
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: BACK TO SEGREGATION
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: GOAD
• CHAPTER TWENTY: BRUTALITY TO THE MAX
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: FROM NORMAL LOCATION TO DIRTY PROTEST
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: FROM BRISTOL BULLSHIT TO DONCASTER PRIVATE
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: FOUR MORE YEARS IN FRANKLAND
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: A BOGUS AFFAIR
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: MOVING ON TO KINGSTON
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: REPATRIATION
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: BITING THE BULLET
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE FINAL COURSE
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: THE LAST STANCE
• CHAPTER THIRTY: ROAD TO REDEMPTION
• CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: TWO YEARS ON…
• AFTERWORD
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Plates
• Copyright