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The first thing you notice about the ''Little Book of Prison'' is that it is indeed a ''little'' book, more of a pocket sized booklet than a typical tome, both in dimensions and number of pages. Inside it’s a little different too and one of my pet peeves is realized as exclamation points are used like they’re going out of style!!!!!! It’s bad enough when this happens online in blogs but in a book it’s really annoying!!!! As is the absence of a couple of apostrophes (one on the back cover, no less)!!!!! Frankie goes out of his way to tell us that he is an educated man with a senior job, a Masters degree and aspirations of doing a (now publicly-funded) PhD (though alas his sentence isn’t long enough to facilitate this) but it’s not really the impression you get while reading this book. Perhaps it’s down to the editing, perhaps he’s written it more to his target audience (with x % a considerable percentage of the prison population lacking even basic literacy skills) than to the rest of us, but it comes across as almost childish in places, like a school leaver’s attempt at book writing rather than the real thing.