You Are Going For Prison By Jim Hogshire Essay - 919 Words

You Are Going To Prison Book Review The United States has the largest population of prisoners of any nation in the world. As of 2013 there were more than 1.57 million inmates in jails and prisons throughout the U.S.(The United States) In the book You Are Going To Prison, by Jim Hogshire, a verbal picture is painted of the life of a prisoner. Published in 1994 by the publishing company Loompanics Unlimited, this book talks about the experience of being incarcerated from the time you are stopped by police and arrested to potentially facing the death penalty. In the first chapter, the author discusses the process of being arrested. He describes how to interact with the police, how to deal with evidence that could incriminate you, and how to exercise your rights such as your right to decline searches, to request a lawyer, and your right to remain silent. Once you are arrested, he discusses the importance of looking clean and likable in your mugshot in the section titled â€Å"The Pee Wee Problem.† In thi s section he says: â€Å"Consider the case of Pee Wee Herman who got caught beating off in public. It wasn’t the â€Å"crime† that ruined him at all. It was the picture. The Pee Wee Herman we knew was almost sexless and benign. More than anything else the public was shocked by that mugshot. Instead of the harmless man-child, we saw a goateed dog-rapist. There was no doubt, once that mug shot was published, that Pee Wee was beating off in the movie theater and even people inclined to give