The publisher Cenk Bora on the author: "I have encountered many people who are committed to prisoners," says his lawyer Christian Ströbele, "but to such an extent, I have not experienced that before." Ralf-Axel Simon is a versatile writer. In this book, he combines poems, parables, narratives, diary notes, dreams, short stories, and satire into a single goal: he proves that it is not the prisoner who is perverse, but the system in which he lives. Five of the texts documented here have won literary awards over a span of 20 years. When I bring up his writing during a relaxed moment, his eyes sparkle with anger and his voice becomes sad: A writer describes the world; I wanted to change it! "In a way, he's a hero, even if he's a bit of a weirdo," quotes the daily newspaper one of his guards.