Marching Powder by Rusty Young
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America's Strangest Jail
A British drug trafficker arrested in Bolivia ends up inside the notorious San Pedro prison, a corrupt, self-governing micro-society where inmates buy cells, run businesses, and create their own rules; the narrator, who lived there for months after befriending the prisoner, delivers a vivid mix of reportage and memoir that scenes daily life—markets, makeshift schools, bribery, escape plots and the crude economics of survival—and examines how resilience, moral ambiguity and entrepreneurship take shape when the state withdraws control.
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- Published
- 2003
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- Australian
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- English
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