The Hot House Life Inside Leavenworth Prison is an unbelievably intriguing book that recounts life in jail from a candid, insider's perspective. And, from both edges from the interior, guards and inmates. Prison annals, heritage, slang, aggression, lore, norms, protocols, and communal anticipations are explained. The author Pete Early, is the only scribe renowned to have been permitted to get access to all inmates at the prison, without guard escort or protection. He travelled to Leavenworth some times over number of years.