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title: "The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison"
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# The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great inside info
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2023*

Book gives some great insite into one of the most unwritten about west coast prison gangs- The AB.. bought this book just to read about the Brotherhood and was NOT disappointed. I purchased the authors other book about the WitSec based on how his writing style flows and is easily read! I heavily enjoyed this book!

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    Mixed Feelings.....
  

*by T***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2018*

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison is an interesting view into the lives of "some" of Leavenworth Prison colorful characters. Earley creates the mood for this novel by having "certain" inmates recall their past and present lives (while moving through the incarceration system). While none of the stories were brutal and viscous (compared to what we read about today), Earley was still able to provide chilling accounts of prison life.  I read this novel twice- and both times I had to try really hard to remember the fact that this novel was written in the late eighties early nineties. I read all of the great reviews and I was really expecting to view a fair, open, and honest account of prison life. I'm surprised none of these reviews touched upon a significant aspect of this novel.What I read were open detailed accounts of white men/prisoner lives. Don't get me wrong, I fully respect when authors use racial terms in their novels (after all I understand the times). What I do not- and refuse to understand is how this book (at times) seem to sympathize with the Neo-Nazi groups, the white bank robbers, and numerous white murderers stories and accounts. On the other hand, "The Blacks" (the author words exactly) were portrayed as monsters, ignorant, and a racial slur I will not use. Even when Earley described how dedicated, great, and honest Warden Robert Matthews was, in the very next chapter he was tearing his character down with stories of how the guards hated him, showed little disregard for his policies, and the racial animosity majority of his staff members felt towards him. Furthermore, even if the inmates remained anonymous I could easily tell the difference of a white inmate story from "The Blacks". So many points I can make regarding this novel however, you will have to read it for yourself. I appreciate you for taking time out to read my review. Respect my opinion- the same as I respect your opinion.Excerpts From The Book:(Page 320) Matthews told his grandparents that whites seemed more like devils than human beings. They corrected him. It was just as wrong to judge white people by the color of their skin as it was for whites to judge blacks, he was told.(Page 279) Scott would turn the set on around dinnertime and watch the national news. He used to watch a game show before the news, but he stopped in protest when a black man appeared as a contestant.(Page 397) “Don’t make it any of that (bleep) music,” he warned, referring to rap songs.

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    A good read...
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2013*

The Hot House is not a bad book. I found some of the stories interesting, others eh, not as much. But I have to wonder how much of it is actual truth, and how much is journalistic embellishment?I am always suspicious of stories written by someone "just visiting" an institution. Somewhat like those so called "reality shows" where the inmates are hand picked and edited for television. I am not saying that is the case here, but you have to wonder if and WHY some of these people are telling these stories? I don't know.. maybe it is all true? I can't say for sure. It's just something I think about.But the book was not bad. I found myself reading along and interested for most of it. But it did jump around a bit and felt a little lacking. Maybe it was just the outside perspective that made me feel this way. As a journalist, Earley is an observer, rather than a participant...  and I felt that reading this book. I think I was hoping for just a little bit more. I wanted an inside view, not an observation.Even though Edward Bunker's books are classified as fiction, they felt more "real" to me, than this one. Again, probably because he had a different perspective and was able to convey that in his books.Even so, I did enjoy the book.

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