RAWSON: the name of the infamous Patagonian prison in the town originally called, in Welsh, Trerawson, Rawson Town. What was it like to be in Argentinas toughest jail during the years of the Dirty War, between 1976 and 1983?
Pablo Bohoslavsky describes the experience, his own experience and that of others, brilliantly in this book. Jailers and prisoners felt "proud", it seems, to be at this maximum security prison. With nothing to read for three years, inmates were denied family visits. There was no radio or TV. Censorship was absolute. There was no shortage of nocturnal transfers during...