You Are Going to Prison


You Are Going to Prison is a non-fiction book by Jim Hogshire. It is a practical survival guide for those who are facing their first experience with incarceration. It was loosely adapted into the 2006 comedy film Let's Go to Prison.

Reception

Commending the book for "affording the potential convict a somewhat more realistic appraisal of the dangers of prison life and workable responses to them", Booklist argued in 1994 that "Hogshire has filled a totally empty niche in the reference ecology". By 2006, Entertainment Weekly referred to You Are Going to Prison as "Jim Hogshire's classic underground tome".

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