Beacon Press

Beacon Press - I don't wish nobody to have a life like mine: tales of kids in adult lockup, paperback/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.

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 th.