About the Author

Roy Harper has been incarcerated since 1981 for armed robbery. Originally from Arizona, the 57 year old author now speaks with a southern accent, the result of his long stint in a Mississippi prison. Harper gained nationwide notoriety for two highly publicized escapes from a maximum security prison and subsequent high speed car chases and police shoot-outs in 1983 and 2000. For the past fifteen years he has been campaigning in US courts to reduce brutality and injustice in American jails.