With the recent profound social and cultural upheavals arising in the USA and beyond following the shocking death of George Floyd while in police custody and centred on the compelling need for greater racial justice and police accountability encapsulated in the anti-racist activist Black Lives Matter movement. This timely and richly insightful expanded version of Trevor Hercules 1989 prison memoir deserves to be widely read. After some brief biographical references to his early troubled life experiences in West London, the timeframe of his lengthy incarceration following the imposition of a 7 year prison sentence in the 1970’s (with a later period in prison in the 1990’s) although from an earlier era, nonetheless offers a disturbing picture of endemic violence, callous institutional indifference and casual racism, relationship breakdown, as well as the deadening impact of the tedious monotony of prison life, often served in long periods of solitary confinement. At a time when more popular agitation for improved prison conditions and the voice of prisoners were beginning to gain wider public and governmental attention. This is particularly well covered in his recounting of his carceral experiences in Chapter 8 when transferred to HMP Gartree as one of the key figures behind the 1978 riot (rebellion) at the prison, a serious disturbance which followed well founded concerns at the treatment of a fellow prisoner then being held in the hospital wing of the prison. The first part of the book details his prison journey in vivid and angry prose, and his perspectives on prison life are offered to the reader, perhaps unfamiliar with The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice

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书评：贴上黑人恶棍的标签：了解社会剥夺心态

随着乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）在警察拘留期间令人震惊地死亡，美国最近发生了深刻的社会和文化动荡，并集中在反种族主义活动家“黑人的命也是命”运动中对更大的种族正义和警察问责制的迫切需要。特雷弗·赫拉克勒斯 1989 年监狱回忆录的这本及时且富有洞察力的扩展版值得广泛阅读。在简要介绍了他在西伦敦的早期困扰生活经历之后，他在 1970 年代被判处 7 年徒刑（后来在 1990 年代入狱）后长期监禁的时间框架，尽管从更早的时代开始，尽管如此，还是提供了令人不安的地方性暴力、冷漠的制度冷漠和随意的种族主义、关系破裂、以及单调乏味的监狱生活所带来的令人窒息的影响，通常是长期单独监禁。在更普遍的鼓动改善监狱条件和囚犯的声音开始获得更广泛的公众和政府关注的时候。这在他在第 8 章中作为 1978 年监狱骚乱（叛乱）背后的关键人物之一被转移到 HMP Gartree 时的入狱经历中得到了很好的阐述，这是一场严重的骚乱，随后是对一名囚犯的待遇有充分理由的担忧。同狱囚犯随后被关押在监狱的医院翼楼。本书前半部分以生动而愤怒的散文详述了他的监狱之旅，并将他对监狱生活的看法提供给可能不熟悉《社区与刑事司法杂志》的读者