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Book review: Labelled a Black Villain: And Understanding the Social Deprivation Mindset

With the recent profound social and cultural upheavals arising in the USA and beyond following the shocking death of George Floyd while in police custody and centred on the compelling need for greater racial justice and police accountability encapsulated in the anti-racist activist Black Lives Matter movement. This timely and richly insightful expanded version of Trevor Hercules 1989 prison memoir deserves to be widely read. After some brief biographical references to his early troubled life experiences in West London, the timeframe of his lengthy incarceration following the imposition of a 7 year prison sentence in the 1970’s (with a later period in prison in the 1990’s) although from an earlier era, nonetheless offers a disturbing picture of endemic violence, callous institutional indifference and casual racism, relationship breakdown, as well as the deadening impact of the tedious monotony of prison life, often served in long periods of solitary confinement. At a time when more popular agitation for improved prison conditions and the voice of prisoners were beginning to gain wider public and governmental attention. This is particularly well covered in his recounting of his carceral experiences in Chapter 8 when transferred to HMP Gartree as one of the key figures behind the 1978 riot (rebellion) at the prison, a serious disturbance which followed well founded concerns at the treatment of a fellow prisoner then being held in the hospital wing of the prison. The first part of the book details his prison journey in vivid and angry prose, and his perspectives on prison life are offered to the reader, perhaps unfamiliar with The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice