Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
What is the setting in the memoir, Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail?
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San Pedro Prison is the setting for most of the book's events. Thomas is sent there after being busted for cocaine trafficking. The prison's amazing rules, living arrangements, and system of criminalized capitalism become central to the story.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail