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In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents.

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A true story of friendship, cocaine and South America's strangest jail.Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed a strong and instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas's experiences in the jail. Rusty bribed the guards to allow him to stay and for the next three months he lived inside the prison, sharing a cell with Thomas and recording one of the strangest and most compelling prison stories of all time. Marching Powder is a shocking, sometimes darkly comic account of the life in San Pedro. In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Others run shops and restaurants, and hundreds of women and children live with imprisoned family members. It is a place where corrupt politicians and drug lords live in luxury apartments while the poorest prisoners are subjected to squalor and deprivation. Violence and crime are never far away, and sections of San Pedro that echo with the sound of children by day house some of Bolivia's busiest cocaine laboratories by night. In San Pedro, cocaine makes life bearable-even the prison cat is addicted to crack.Yet amid the corruption, brutality and the daily struggle for survival, Marching Powder is also the tale of an unlikely friendship, forged in the oddest of circumstances, between a drug smuggler and a lawyer. It is the story of one of the strangest places on earth, where horror is leavened by humour and where cruelty lives side by side with compassion.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
ISBN-13
9780732911805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95939259

Product Key Features

Book Title
Marching Powder
Author
Rusty Young
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Criminology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Height
228mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
547g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Rusty Young
Topic Area
Criminal Law
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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