Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising

Rating:
Summary: Read it, then decide
Review: I have read this book, and I found it to be a careful documentation of what happened based on court and other government documents, as well as independent interviews with the people who were there.

Those who suggest that this book has an agenda are correct - it is an agenda that seeks the full truth and nothing less. Justice, and nothing less.

Read it and decide for yourself.

--abe

Abraham J. Bonowitz

Rating:
Summary: Ohio Reader
Review: Straughton Lynd's book is a total one sided view of the "Lucasville 5". His release of the names of the inmates who cooperated with investigating authorities has compromised their health, safety, and welfare...even those who have been transferred out of the state of Ohio. It is my understanding that because of this, the book is not being permitted into Ohio's correctional facilities and rightfully so.

Mr. Lynd has apparently allowed his aversion to the death penalty and unwillingness to hold inmates accountable for their crimes to cloud his objectivity and his sense of responsibility. The death of 10 inmates and 1 correctional officer deserved better than Mr. Lynd's self-serving effort.