In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail, Phoenix, Arizona, where gangs such as the Aryan Brotherhood and even guards were murdering inmates, Shaun used a tiny pencil sharpened on a cell door to document the conditions: dead rats in the food, cockroaches tickling him at nightime, gang mayhem and violence…

This companion book to Shaun's jail memoir, Hard Time, contains the writing that his aunt smuggled out of the maximum-security Madison Street jail, and turned the international media spotlight on the conditions.