A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada?s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto?s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars. Once considered a serious threat to public safety, he spent much of his time at Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison that housed four hundred of Canada?s most dangerous inmates, including murderers, bank robbers, and gang members, as well as ? for most of his stay there ? a gang of sadistic guards.