If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you’ll probably recall the occasional post about Paddy Mitchell. After a long and illustrious career as Canada’s favourite bank robber and prison escape artist, Paddy is now retired and writing from a maximum security prison in the US. He’s also battling lung cancer, and trying to get transferred to a Canadian penitentiary under the Prisoner Exchange Treaty, so he can spend his remaining time near his family in Ottawa.
Paddy published his autobiography a few years ago (This Bank Robber’s Life: The Life and Fast Times of Paddy Mitchell), and is working on a screenplay and a novel. He also just started writing a blog: Paddy Mitchell: A Blog Behind Bars.
He doesn’t have Internet access in prison, so I’m helping him with the blog. Basically he writes the blog entries by hand, snail-mails them to me, and I type them up and post them on his blog for him. Then I print out any comments, snail-mail them to him, and he snail-mails his responses back to me along with his next blog entry.
This might be the only blog in existence being written by somebody who has never seen the Internet!
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