The Happy Prisoner: A Challenging and Deeply Personal Insight into the British Justice System

Justice isn’t just about punishment, so why do our prisons act like it is? When Umberto Schramm was sent to prison for a mistake he will regret for the rest of his life, he expected punishment… but also rehabilitation. What he found instead was a system so broken that it often made prisoners more likely to reoffend, not less. Part diary, part manifesto for change, The Happy Prisoner is a searingly honest account of life behind bars – from the violence and deprivation to the unexpected momen...