"Deprived of a Fighting Chance" is an Education Coordinator's memoir of 21/2 years she worked in a maximum security detention centre. The work involved delivering correspondence courses to inmates, networking between security, volunteer tutors, and the Ministries of Corrections and Educataion and Training from a broom closet which correctional officers told her was the only room in the building that could not be locked. Her supervisor warned her to hide her telephone at night from the correctional officers. Efforts to provide educational opportunities to the inmates were regularly subjected...