BOOK REVIEW: Hotel K - The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
Jails to most of us mean strict punishments, high security walls, guards on rounds as well as frequent police checks to prevent jail escapes. If the roles of jails are reversed, what would actually happen? A shocking insight into Bali's most notorious jail, this book is sure to widen your eyes.
Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its wall touch paradise: sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it's a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.
Hotel K's filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay's brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe.
Petty thieves share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters,. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists, who've seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstacy pill.
Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild 'sex' nights organized by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay, the jail's ecstacy factory, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale.
The truth about the dark heart of Bali's jail is explained in clear detail. Gawping in shock as I turned every page, this book shines a light on a part of jail that we never knew existed.
