Unprison
Yamila Abraham
Publisher: Yaoi Press
Pages: 105
Reviewer: Sandra Scholes
Synopsis:
A scrawny Princeton freshman gets sent to prison where he becomes the property of a powerful yet compassionate inmate. For adults only.
Review:
Ryan Burgess is a cocky kid who buys baggies of cocaine and takes them to the best, most exclusive parties in town to ensure he gets in and has the time of his life. He lives it up for a while, but when he gets rumbled in school by one of his classmates. Instead of a slap on the wrists for dealing, he gets sent to prison, his sentence, 25 years in Palville Correctional Facility.
As soon as Ryan finds out the risks in prison, he thinks he might not survive the month; getting AIDS, beat-up or raped isn't uncommon and every time he is alone, he runs the risk of all three. As he looks thin and gaunt, they think he has some illness, AIDS or TB. His plans are to lay low as he could and see about sorting out how to kill himself.
Ryan is too eager to end his time in Palville though when he gets sent to a different part of the prison in isolation where he meets Donnie Sullivan who tells him everything he needs to know about prison life and who the bad guys are. What he finds of more importance is the one guy inside who will claim him for his own - and he doesn't know who that is yet, and he's only day away from being released from his solitary existence.
As far as other readers will be concerned, Ryan is lucky to have Donnie around as with each piece of advice he gives him, he feels a little bit better off that he can control situations around him if the inmates get to be too much. You could also be forgiven for thinking that Donnie might be being far too helpful than he should, but it will all be discovered later in the story. I liked this one for its portrayal of prison life and some of the humour you would need if you were in there with them.
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