Reflections from a Lifer: Erwin James

<p><strong>Erwin James</strong> has been a Guardian columnist and contributor since 1998. Currently he is Editor in Chief of Inside Time, the national newspaper for people in prison. He became a writer in prison where he served 20 years of a mandatory life sentence. He has been a consultant for Iain Duncan Smith MP on prisoner rehabilitation and a Commissioner on the panel of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice. Erwin is the author of three books: <em>A Life Inside: A Prisoners Notebook</em>, <em>The Home Stretch: From Prison to Parole</em>, and <em>Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope</em>.</p> <p>Further reading:</p> <p><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10711.David_Levering_Lewis">Levering Lewis</a>. D. (1994, first published 1973). Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1994).   Henry Holt & Company</p> <p>Solzhenitsyn, A. (2003, first published 1966). Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</p> <p>Tolstoy, L. (1998,  first published 1869). War and Peace.  Oxford University Press </p> <p><a href= "http://www.thereader.org.uk">www.thereader.org.uk</a> </p>