Serious Court: Confessions of a Prison Judge is a book about prison inmates and the disciplinary court (officially known as the Serious Court) within the Canadian federal penitentiaries. It contains real stories of prisoners - many are hilarious, most are heartbreaking, and all are unique due to the unusual environment from which these stories arise. Behind these stories is an overarching theme which the writer, a former prison judge, returns to throughout: an emphasis that prison authorities should observe the rule of law when disciplining inmates, and that all parties - the staff members, the Indigenous counsellors, and even the inmates - should take Serious Court seriously, pun intended. Readers will also gain an insight into a world very different from their own, and an understanding of inmate discipline through institutional court proceedings.