After a tumultuous childhood (documented in his memoir “Spiral“) Troy began robbing banks to fund an outrageous life that included incarceration at some of the nation’s most dangerous prisons, multiple escapes and recapture. Finally sentenced to a series of life sentences this book is the retelling of some of his experiences while incarcerated and is at times hilarious, tragic and compelling.
In expanding and retelling that story here, I imagined what some of the characters may have looked like, what they may have said, and even what they may have thought, all based on a composite of people I have known and the experiences I’ve had during my forty-six years spent in fifteen different prisons.
R. Troy Bridges
Bridges has accomplished more as an incarcerated individual than most people accomplish in their lifetimes. He has not only rehabilitated himself but has rehabilitated others. Judge Jon Mark Weathers, Circuit Court Judge, Forrest County, Mississippi
Troy’s book offers an intimate view of life inside of America’s prison system in the form of a series of short stories culminating with a profound rediscovery of the meaning of life.
