A Ruined Life — Phillip Lesbirel

It's Malcolm Everett's 18th birthday and naturally he is celebrating with his friends. But the trip home goes horribly wrong and his new car; bought for him by his father, is involved in an accident and 5 of his friends are killed while he survives. He is charged with 5 counts of culpable homicide and sentenced to 45 years in jail with parole after 20 years through a deal with the prosecution to plead guilty. White, blonde haired and young, he is placed in the area that houses the Aryan Brothers and is forced into their ways and the bitch to the leader of the Aryan Brothers. Prison changes all men and Malcolm is no different but he continues with his law studies and eventually passes and becomes a lawyer inside the prison and is given young offenders through his mentor; a well known lawyer in San Francisco. His original lawyer was inexperienced when Malcolm was tried and jailed, but he continued to investigate the accident and finds some disturbing evidence linking his father to falsified evidence and corruption of court and prison officials. A retrial is refused because Malcolm pleaded guilty at the original trial, but the Governor is more sympathetic to the case. While in prison, Malcolm meets the daughter of the leader of the Aryan Brothers and an arranged marriage is carried out, as the brides father is dying of cancer and needs a son to carry on his work in the prison. Malcolm agrees to the marriage and to being a father to her young son. This is a story of the growth of a youth into a vicious member of the Aryan Brotherhood; of corruption in the judicial prison system; life in jail and all the bloodshed that happens; gangs, killings, drugs, rapes; it is graphic but real.