Jailhead. My life in a box

About the Book

Jailhead is the story of life before and after a five-year prison sentence of the author Walt Wallace. It will describe the type of person he was before prison, the type of person he became while there and the type of person he struggled to change from on leaving the prison system. He does not hold back on anything and is frank about his experiences. This is not another Glasgow hard man story so much in vogue these days, neither is it another attempt at a best seller by a disgraced Lord. He was just an ordinary person, in an extraordinary situation. It documents his struggle with coping with the insanity that is the British penal system and the struggle with coping with life on the outside after completing a custodial sentence in some of the UK’s hardest, oldest, most brutal prisons.

About the Author

Wallace was an ordinary guy in his mid thirties working as a full time carer, and a part time nightclub doorman when a car accident changed his life forever. Convicted of dangerous driving which resulted in a death, he was sentenced to five years in prison. His book documents his experiences as he gained the skills necessary to survive in prison. His unique insight as a non criminal locked up with lifers, rapists, and drug dealers, and easy writing style highlights his desire to lose the skills he needed to survive inside and his struggle to stay out of prison on his release.