ORLANDO, FL, February 06, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Michael "Tyke" McCarthy spent more than half of his 63 years inside prison walls. His memoir, Re-Incarceration: A True Story of Life Inside the Revolving Door of Jail, chronicles a criminal history that began at age eight and spanned five decades, offering an unfiltered perspective on repeat incarceration in America.

McCarthy's arrest record, which is a matter of public record, includes armed bank robbery committed at age fifteen, numerous burglaries, and repeated parole violations. He served time in California Youth Authority facilities, state prisons including San Quentin, and federal penitentiaries at the Florence complex in Colorado and Seagoville in Texas.

Born in San Francisco in 1959, McCarthy grew up in an upper-middle-class Irish Catholic family in Marin County. His father played for the San Francisco Seals baseball team. Despite these advantages, McCarthy describes himself as the "jet-black sheep" of his family, drawn to motorcycles and criminal activity from an early age.

The memoir details McCarthy's experiences within the prison system, including time spent at facilities nicknamed "gladiator school" for their violence, his participation in prison firefighting programs, and the role alcohol addiction played in his repeated returns to incarceration. He recounts a prison riot at the Florence Federal Correctional Institution that resulted in the loss of his front teeth.

McCarthy was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for armed bank robbery in 2000. Thirty family members and friends appeared at his sentencing hearing. After his release, parole violations related to alcohol led to an additional fourteen months of incarceration.

In 2023, McCarthy experienced five strokes while working at a demolition site, leaving him with partial paralysis and vision impairment. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife, Reba, and recently completed his parole for the first time in four decades.

When asked about his decades of criminal activity and imprisonment, McCarthy stated: "It was an embarrassing waste of time."

Re-Incarceration joins a growing body of literature examining the American criminal justice system from the perspective of those who have lived within it. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that approximately 44 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within their first year of release, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the "revolving door" of incarceration.

The book is published by Parker Publishers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael "Tyke" McCarthy is a first-time author and retired demolition worker. He is a member of a Northern California motorcycle club where he has maintained membership for over 30 years. He lives with his wife in Northern California. Re-Incarceration is his first book.

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