The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Philosophy and Family - Andy West

The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Philosophy and Family - Andy WestAndy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with prisoners about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and offers new ways to think about their situation. These questions about how to live are ones we all share, but the extraordinary setting makes them more urgent. Can bad behaviour ever be justified? Do we have the right to forgive ourselves, whether we've committed a crime or offended a friend? Can a prisoner be free?

Drawing on a wealth of material

and his role as poet to know that community

'A dazzling delight

cement mixers and a host of other exciting tools and machinery

amidst grief

English Potted Meats and Fish Pastes and Syllabubs and Fruit Fools which were sold exclusively in the shop

Then a murder case turns up

Denmark Portugal

betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever

The terms sexuality and wholeness indicate that to be sexual is to exist in a state of incompleteness longing to be restored

Polly Pecorino rescues animals

or is it a Z on its side