title: Iron House: Stories from the Yard
author:  Jerome Washington 
description: A vivid account of life behind bars, the prisoners and those who guard them, this collection of impressions, some as brief as a sentence, is searing. Washington was imprisoned-we're not told why-from 1972 to 1989, part of that time at Attica, New York's maximum-security prison, and met con artists, sex addicts, psychotics and dreamers. There are Jomo, who taught him how to escape without leaving the walls; Little Black, who turned a can of tuna into a banquet; and Julio, who smiled as a gang of guards beat him to death. Washington sees most of the warders as small-souled and brutal, yet as much imprisoned as those they guard. On his release, he finds the outside world paranoid, populated by prisoners of their own desperation. <BR>Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  > DOORS OF GOLD AND RUST
  
  > Byrne House #2
  
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  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos101)
  
  [Copyright](index_split_001.html#filepos654)
  
  [Dedication](index_split_002.html#filepos1455)
  
  [Part One](index_split_004.html#filepos5490)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_spli