The Prison Doctor

The story of the Prison Doctor is inspired by real crime cases in which male long-term prison inmates seek to seduce female prison personnel. In most cases the sex is the minor attraction for them. The real aim is escape. Some have been successful. A few have gotten clear away, but the usual result is a jail sentence for the prison officer.

In a widely publicised New York case two male prisoners made promises of a new life on a Mexican beach (a la Shawshank Redemption) to a guard who was unhappy in her marriage. The escape was successful, but in the manhunt that followed one prisoner was killed and the other returned to prison with an increased sentence. The guard got her first taste of life on the other side of the bars.

The Prison Doctor begins with Magnuson, a convicted killer on death row, seeing the prison's new doctor as a weakness in the security system. Gillian, the doctor, is a timid and vulnerable woman who has been through two unsuccessful marriages....