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Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence. He hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true. Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor and brutal violence, Nick lives at the mercy of the drug barons and in fear of the lifers. Constantly stalked by danger he has to find a way to survive in the prison rife with heroin. To earn protection money he turns to the one thing he's good at - art. But can selling pictures to visitors be enough to keep the mob at bay? Or will he be made an example of by the hard men and suffer the worst type of prison punishment? This book is based on the experiences of the author and is a must read for any young person who is likely to succumb to temptation. It's vital they understand that taking stupid risks can sometimes have dire consequences. For anyone under the illusion that prison is like a holiday camp this book will show it's a place to be avoided at all costs. As for education to help inmates, in October 2013 John Hoskison sat on the panel of the Ofsted Conference on Prison Education in HMP Wormwood Scrubs. The panel was made up of Baroness Sally Morgan, Sir Michael Wilshaw, (Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education), Nick Hardwick, (Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons) and Nicola Padfield, (Master of the Law Faculty Fitzwilliam College - Cambridge). It was agreed that prison education is simply not working. If you think someone can go into prison and learn something - think again. In a staggering report, only 18% of prisoners felt they were supported in education by officers. It is no surprise therefore that the re-offending rate in 2013 remains unacceptably high.