Rimutaka Prison: Stories From The Bones
By L. E. Scott

THROUGHOUT LIFE

As I go through life

I will at least make six friendships

So when I die

I will not have to walk to my grave

With six strangers complaining about

The heavy load

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L. E. Scott’s first book to come out of his experience of being caught up in the New Zealand justice system and spending some years in prison, Rimutaka Prison – Poems & Prose From A Human Landfill, reflected his personal experiences and struggles during that time.

 

This collection of stories, Rimutaka Prison – Stories From The Bones, pulls the walls down on some of his neighbours in that gated community and how they shape their place in a locked-up world where time stops having meaning and their very existence has the humanity sucked out of it.