jail – Cannonball Read 17

“You never leave jail, and jail never leaves you.”

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

October 10, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I honestly don’t remember where I got this, but I think it was at a used bookstore this summer. I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine is a collection of stories of David Chura’s time teaching teenagers who were seen as adult criminals legally and were being put into the adult system. He covers a variety of scenarios and tells some very heartbreaking stories that he saw during his tenure as a teacher. His main thesis is that the system is destructive […]

Dedicated People Make Amazing Things Happen

June 15, 2017 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Doctor Elizabeth Ford is a psychiatrist who has worked on and overseen the prison hospital psychiatric wards at Bellevue Hospital in New York since 2000. In this memoir, Dr. Ford describes the conditions, staff and patients in these wards as well as her own personal journey in working with them. Much of what she describes is frustrating and tragic: the lack of space and consistent treatment for those in need, seeing the same prisoners cycle back into her wards over and over, stories of individual […]

That Night the bad thing happened

June 12, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my sister recommended this book to me. Most of my friends and family know that I like to read, so I get many recommendations. I just have a hard time remembering who recommended what book to me since I’m usually reading four books at a time. Anyway, I remember my sister told me to read this one because she saw it on my counter and said “oh, you’re reading that book I recommended to you”. Stunning intellect I’ve got 🙂 Anyway, for some reason […]

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