- Published: 1 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780807001233
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $45.00
I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
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- Published: 1 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780807001233
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $45.00
"Powerful...I hope some of the leaders of the Obama administration will pay attention to these gripping stories and will wake our country up before it is too late." --Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities "[Chura] recalls the raw, gritty emotions of young men with little education and few options...A compelling personal look at the failings of the juvenile justice system." --Booklist "As U.S. courts send more than 250,000 minors each year into adult prisons...Chura's anguished, incisive depiction of one of those outposts is not merely an indictment of the system. It's a compelling call to repair our society's brokenness." --Cathi Dunn MacRae, Youth Today "In thick and unvarnished descriptions, David Chura takes us into the growing gulag of American youth prisons and shows us the fractured faces and bruised spirits of children who seem almost condemned to destruction by the structural ecology of class and race and ancestry. Read this book and know we must do better." --William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent