Gospel Behind Bars
By Phil Shirley
Hodder & Stoughton. 113 pages. £5.99
ISBN 0 340 67128 9
This short book purports to tell 'true life stories of crime and repentance'.
30 accounts are very briefly related, with the crimes ranging from murder and rape to terrorism and robbery, and the repentance testified by prisoners on Death Row in the USA, 'lifers' in the UK, and a Mafia supergrass in Italy. All the accounts are from the recent past and describe individual conversions rather than widespread revival (as has been witnessed in some South American prisons) - despite the book's sub-title being 'True Stories of Prison Revival'.
