I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807001233)

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. In these pages, he gives a face to a population regularly demonized and reduced to statistics by the mainstream media. Through language marked by both the grit of the street and the expansiveness of poetry, the stories of these young people break down the di­visions 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.


Author: David Chura
ISBN-10: 0807001236
ISBN-13: 9780807001233
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.50w x 0.64d