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‘GENIUS’ is not a word you expect to see in a book about prisons. Yet there it is, as plain as day, on page 124, of this timely, though heart-wrenching book. Prison policy makers, from government officials through news managers, should be mandated to read at least chapter eight of this book (all 10 pages of it), every year, and then put in writing the three key points they then learn from doing so, with a clear commitment as to how they intend to put them into practice.… Read more “The Barlinnie Special Unit – Book Review”