I don't wish nobody to have a life like mine: tales of kids in adult lockup
(Book)
Author:
Published:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2010].
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9780807000649, 0807000647
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Description
Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed laws making it easier to prosecute youth under eighteen as adults, and most states have legalized harsher sentences for juveniles. David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years and saw these young people—and the effects of our laws on them—up close. Here he introduces us to the real kids behind the hysteria: vibrant, animated kids full of humor and passion; kids who were born into families broken up and beaten down by drugs, gang violence, AIDS, poverty, and abuse. He also introduces us to wardens, correctional officers, family members, and doctors, and shows how everyone in this world is a child of disappointment. We meet Wade, who carries a stack of photos of his HIV-positive mother in his pocket to take out and share with pride. Khalil has spent all fifteen years of his life in foster care, group homes, juvenile detention, and mental hospitals, yet has channeled his inner demons into poetry. There’s Anna, a hard-nosed one-time teenage drug baroness who serves as a tutor to students and older women alike; Dominic, a father of two who only reads in jail, and only the Harry Potter books; and Eddyberto, a bright student and self-taught artist whose wildly creative drawings are confiscated and used to accuse him of being a potential terrorist and threat to national security. Then there’s O’Shay, a big, burly, snarling Bronx-Irish classroom officer with a surprising protective side for the underdog, and Ms. Wharton, a hallway officer with a spiky demeanor but a soft spot for animals. In language that carries both the grit of the street and the expansiveness of poetry, Chura breaks down the divisions we so easily erect between us and them, the keepers and the kept—and shows how, ultimately, we as individuals and as a society have failed these young people.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Bemis Teen Deck
YA 371.93 CHURA,DA
On Shelf
Dec 18, 2019
Pitkin County Library
371.93 C559
On Shelf
Jun 3, 2020
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Physical Desc:
xxiii, 216 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Chura, D. (2010). I don't wish nobody to have a life like mine: tales of kids in adult lockup. Boston, Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Chura, David, 1948-. 2010. I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. Boston, Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Chura, David, 1948-, I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. Boston, Beacon Press, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Chura, David. I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. Boston, Beacon Press, 2010.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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