It is his experience behind bars—seven years for armed robbery and felonious assault—that Thomas examines in … "Seven Long Times."
Thomas served his time in both Sing Sing and Great Meadows (Comstock), and his narrative account of what passes for life in these institutions may not be new…. [However Thomas] has written an intensely human document of one man's will for survival. (p. 10)
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