Alexander Gordon Smith's Lockdown Escape From Furnace

Convicted By Murder Have you ever dreamed when you were a young teen about going to prison or your parent told you that they were going to put you in a scared straight program? A young male, Alexander Gordon Smith wrote a book called “Lockdown Escape From Furnace”. Furnace Penitentiary, in the distant future, is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It is buried a mile beneath the Earth’s surface. One way in and no way out. Once you're there, you're there until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn't take long with the help of the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, ‘new fish’ Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices find a way out or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. This novel portrays the realms of reality of being accused of a crime he did not commit vs. how one’s dreams can seem like a reality. This novel portrays the realms of reality of being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil: where creatures …show more content…
The warden is conducting genetic experiments on the inmates taken in the middle of the night. Alex and a group of inmates he befriends, stick together to stay alive and plot their escape from Furnace. The night before they are to escape, Alex’s cellmate, Donovan, is taken in a nightly raid. Shaken but undeterred, Alex promises to come back for him. The next day, the boys manage to blow a hole in an old passage using gas-filled gloves they collected from kitchen duty and jump to their freedom.“You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one