Book Review
Unlocked: A prison officer shines a rare light on Ireland’s flawed criminal system
After 30 years working in some of Ireland’s toughest penal institutions, former prison officer David McDonald paints a bleak picture of our prison system in this eye-opening account, which was co-written with journalist Michael Clifford
David McDonald has a theory about why some prison inmates take their own lives shortly before they are due for release. Life behind bars, he suggests in this sober and thought-provoking memoir (co-authored by the award-winning journalist Mick Clifford), is an unreal existence where addicts focused on getting their next fix can lose all sense of time. “Then, when the thick fog has lifted from their own brain, and they finally have a chance of ...
