51.   Ted Deeds, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America and a strong proponent of harder prison life, scoffs at this argument.

52.   Still, prison life is a little different in Nebraska than most places.

53.   The artist has stretched a ribbon of paper, almost a mile long, weaving from cell to cell and bearing her handwritten commentary on prison life.

54.   The book, to be issued in April, describes the details of prison life.

55.   The first describes prison life.

56.   The floors are gray granite to suggest the hardness of prison life, Boyles says.

57.   The first and best is riveting reportage on prison life that uses the rodeo as both gateway and metaphor for life at Angola.

58.   The most profound horror of prisons lives in the day-to-day banal occurrences that turn days into months, months into years and years into decades.

59.   The museum portrays prison life as Spartan and sometimes dangerous, but not brutal.

60.   The result is a chilling portrayal of prison life and a humanizing portrait of brutal men.