My Life in Prison – John Kiriamiti

When John Kiriamiti was convicted on a charge of robbery with violence and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with 48 strokes of the cane, he was dejected and distraught. There was no way he could spend 20 good years behind those grim walls of prison, he told himself. And he straightway embarked on a mission to escape the throes of prison.

Written from the point of view of the first person narrator, My Life in Prison is a rendition of the travails and tribulations that Kiriamiti experienced behind bars. Like in his first novel, My Life in Crime, Kiriamiti gives us yet another autobiography account of his dramatic life as a criminal, an account that is brutally frank as it is graphic in detail.