Prison

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Author Jack Myette reveals a world that only a small segment of the population will ever see. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Prison: The Inside Story</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> brings to light the perspectives of prison officers teachers and most importantly inmates.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The irate 275-pound prisoner grabbed an officer's plexiglass shield and swung it so hard that it knocked Jack Myette's helmet clean off his head. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to work as a corrections medical aide in a psychiatric prison where Myette helps cut down hanging inmates gets blindsided and slammed to the ground and has to dodge a swinging pool stick and airborne chair aimed directly at him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These early days prove excellent training for the rest of Myette's career - moving on to balance discipline with humanity while managing 180 inmates in a general population prison and ultimately teaching inmates to read write and earn their GEDs.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Prison: The Inside Story </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Myette offers an unflinching look at his twenty-five year career with the Michigan Department of Corrections. At times startling and disturbing at times darkly humorous Myette's narrative ultimately challenges preconceived notions about prisoners as he finds his passion for education and its transformative powers.</span></p>