The painfully true story of a compulsive gambling man, his
stupid mistake and now serving life in prison for something he didn’t do. The
same mans amazing good luck when suddenly, after suffering three years in
prison, an English acquaintance who hadn’t seen him for twenty years finds out
where he is and writes to him. They resume their friendship through two hundred
letters and several visits, joining forces to fight the authorities in an effort
to get justice for him; Prisoner No. 52306 Frank John DeGrasse. It wasn’t easy
for them, a case of one step forward and three steps back, but this coming
together of two very different characters becomes stuff of legend. This is a
powerfully emotional account of true friendship and of the horrors inside one of
America’s toughest Correctional Centres. It should be made compulsory reading
for anyone thinking of doing wrong, anyone involved in the Penal System and
anyone who has a heart.