I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

Name: I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
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ISBN: 9780807001233

ISBN-10: 0807001236

ISBN-13: 9780807001233

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Chura

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A veteran teacher gives an "inside" view of the lives of juveniles sentenced as adults David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years-five days a week, seven hours a day. InI Donrs"t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine,hegives a face to a population regularly demonized and reduced to statisticsby the mainstream media. Through language marked by both the grit of the street and the expansiveness of poetry, these stories break down the dishy;visions we so easily erect between us and them, the keepers and the kept-and call into question the increasing practice of sentencing juveniles as adults.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 2/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Introduction



The Human Stain



From the Projects to the Condos



Prison Birthday



Pinups



Ghost Story



Shit-Eating Grin



Addicted



Mirror, Mirror



Children of Disappointment



The Things They Carried



Mothers of Invention



Word



Man-child



Chicks in the Big House



Meet the Author



Visiting Room



Grand Opening



Safety and Security


Afterword