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Comradery of the Damned is a 2021 debut novella by American author Owen Ashe. Set in 2013, the book is an autobiographical collection of journal entries, centered on the narrator's institutional transfer from an unnamed jail to Salinas Valley State Prison. It concerns the experience of incarceration in California, with short stories and interviews from the narrator's cellmates, interwoven with personal memories from his childhood in Northern California. All true stories, names have been changed to protect the identities of incarcerated individuals.