He had it Coming - Macleish, Karen
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Johnny Bates is incarcerated in the minimum-security correctional facility fighting boredom. One day he learns about an injustice that is being visited upon certain convicts in the maximum-security prison by one of the prison guards. Johnny decides he must be the one to right the wrong. To do that, he must return to maximum-security, to the Walls. Inside the Walls, a lot has changed and Johnny finds himself violently thrust into the most recent problem confronting inmates as well as the prison administration, the problem of juveniles who've been sentenced as adults. The new trouble does serve…mehr

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Johnny Bates is incarcerated in the minimum-security correctional facility fighting boredom. One day he learns about an injustice that is being visited upon certain convicts in the maximum-security prison by one of the prison guards. Johnny decides he must be the one to right the wrong. To do that, he must return to maximum-security, to the Walls. Inside the Walls, a lot has changed and Johnny finds himself violently thrust into the most recent problem confronting inmates as well as the prison administration, the problem of juveniles who've been sentenced as adults. The new trouble does serve to keep the attention of the security staff focused away from Johnny, so although it's a distraction, it's not as bad as it seems at first. As he told the warden, "I'm glad I ain't your biggest problem no more." The book illustrates that prison is not entirely a war between good (security staff) and bad (convicts), but a way of life with love and hate, fear and humor, and pleasure as well as hard knocks. In prison as well as on the outside, life is what you make of it with the cards you are dealt.
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Karen MacLeish has worked as a correctional officer in both maximum and minimum security prisons in the Midwest. She began her career in the prison system when hiring women in male institutions was new. I learned, she says, that a woman who was self-confident and didn t hide behind the power of her badge, had an easier time in the job than many of the male officers because some of the men, both inmates and officers, seemed always to have a need confront each other and prove their masculinity over and over. The prisoners wanted to show their better side to women officers in most instances, even keeping their language clean. After relocating to the southwest, Ms. MacLeish worked as an Intensive Probation Surveillance Officer before attending law school at the University of Arizona. She has had several short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine, recently published A Loaf of Dead, A Jug of Crime, and Thou: This is her first novel and was titled Criminal Justice before.