David Chura has worked with at-risk teenagers for forty years. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and multiple literary journals and anthologies, and he is a frequent lecturer and advisor on incarcer-ated youth. Visit his website Kids in the System.
@lt;br@gt; Riveting . . . An indictment of the system. --Sam Roberts, @lt;i@gt;New York Times@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; As U.S. courts send more than 250,000 minors each year into adult prisons (according to a 2008 Juvenile Justice report), Chura's anguished, incisive depiction of one of those outposts is . . . a compelling call to repair our society's brokenness. --Cathi Dunn MacRae, @lt;i@gt;Youth Today@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; In its many twists and turns, the book discovers in the prison labyrinth a metaphor of the confinements and refuges of the human spirit. In the face of every person he so carefully depicts, the author shows us a mirror. --David Kaczynski, @lt;i@gt;Times Union@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;i@gt; @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; [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. --@lt;i@gt;Booklist@lt;/i@gt;