A Product of the System (1)
01 January 1991
A Product of the System
libdoc November=1993
Author: Leech, Mark
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992
Keywords: Prison
Contents:
Mark Leech was eight years old when his mother died. His father,
unable to cope, became an alcoholic. Mark, the youngest child, was
taken into care and sent to boarding school. His brief period of
happiness there was shattered on the death of his housemaster; he
subsequently became the victim of routine sexual abuse, a 'secret' he
was to endure for the next three years.By the time he was thirteen he
was in an approved school, learning to hotwire cars, and by fifteen
he was in borstal, his first taste of imprisonment. He has been in
and out of prison ever since.