Monday 26 May 2014

Traveller, prisoner, writer

From the Irish Times

In prison, escape means different things to different people. Some find it in cigarettes, some in drugs. For other inmates the television in their cell is the only lifeline.

John Connors, a 42-year-old Dublin-born Traveller now incarcerated in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in Hammersmith in west London, escapes through books. Unshaven and wearing gym trousers and top, he sits on a low bench in a cavernous room off a narrow landing. Connors speaks softly, intelligently and with more than a degree of charm.

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