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Catch up on the latest with my book
Here's everything I have written about imprisonment for public protection in the last three years.
Catch up with my podcast Chat Shit, Get Banged here.
Catch up with my four part series on the permanent state here.
If you have never watched the documentary I directed, ‘The Super Ladies’ about three Ugandan women rally drivers, and a race with a dramatic outcome, here’s part one
and part two.
Again, thank you for helping get the word out about Between a Rock, a Hard Place and a Dystopia! It s been amazing to see the readership grow over the past three years.
Take care,
Sam