I DONT WISH NOBODY HAVE A LIFE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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,
hegives a face to a population regularly demonized and reduced to
statisticsby 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 di?visions 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.–From the Trade Paperback edition.

　　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.–From the Trade Paperback edition.

　　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
　　”David Chura’s timely book ought to destroy our complacency. It
takes us inside the locked-down world of neglected and abused youth
who’ve been cast away into adult jails and reveals, through its
succession of haunting vignettes and surprising turns, a truth that
ought to shame us: when youth fail, it is most often because we
adults have failed them again and again.”—David Kaczynski,
executive director, New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty
　　”A painfully honest window into the hearts and minds of youth who
are incarcerated and the ‘keepers’ who are responsible for their
safety and security. David Chura has crafted a terrific book: it’s
at once riveting and enriching, and by its end, you’ll insist upon
a more humane and effective approach to young offenders.—Sunny
Schwartz, author of Dreams from the Monster Factory
　　”In thick and unvarnished de*ions, 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. These young people-hurt and hardened-have become
the icons of our times, and they cry out for Divine intervention.
But it’s not what God has done to them, finally; it’s what we’ve
done to ourselves. Read this book and know we must do better.”—Bill
Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent
　　”I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine is a light shining
in the hearts of locked-up kids sleepwalking past the buried
treasure they are and may never find. From his long and devoted
work in prisons trying to breathe life into these hearts, ‘Mr. C’
is able to speak with authority and eloquence about how the
American correctional system can almost bring the saintly to their
knees. A book for anyone interested in the hardship and struggle,
and (strangely) innate joy, involved in human
transformation.”—Dennis Sullivan, coauthor of Restorative
Justice