Nov 11, 2021
Erwin James has been a Guardian columnist and contributor since 1998. Currently he is Editor in Chief of Inside Time, the national newspaper for people in prison. He became a writer in prison where he served 20 years of a mandatory life sentence. He has been a consultant for Iain Duncan Smith MP on prisoner rehabilitation and a Commissioner on the panel of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice. Erwin is the author of three books: A Life Inside: A Prisoners Notebook, The Home Stretch: From Prison to Parole, and Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope.
Further reading:
Levering Lewis. D. (1994, first published 1973). Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1994). Henry Holt & Company
Solzhenitsyn, A. (2003, first published 1966). Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Tolstoy, L. (1998, first published 1869). War and Peace. Oxford University Press