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A question of freedom : a memoir of survival, learning, and coming of age in prison

Author: R Dwayne Betts
Publisher: New York : Avery, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts--a good student from a lower-middle-class family--carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is an offense requiring treatment as an adult. A bright young kid, weighing only 126 pounds, he served his eight-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: R Dwayne Betts
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: R Dwayne Betts
ISBN: 9781583333488 1583333487 9781583333969 1583333967
OCLC Number: 262428486
Description: 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Thirty minutes --
2. Things I don't know about my father --
3. Fairfax County Jail : R cells --
4. Will you accept this call? --
5. Halfway to Hell --
6. A need for space --
7. The meaning of a tattoo --
8. Running from trouble --
9. The tale of a High School diploma --
10. Joseph's hand --
11. Another bullet to the brain --
12. The forgiveness parade --
13. Penalties and broken illusions --
14. Transfer --
15. A different kind of road trip --
16. An old story --
17. Prison 101 : SRC, an intro --
18. The mathematics of reunions and a nation --
19. Names and naming --
20. Finally, the knowledge or something close to it --
21. Another trip in the wrong direction --
22. Weed --
23. The people I knew --
24. The cost of a knife --
25. Fishing from the hole --
26. Fifteen hours to a super max --
27. How to make a knife in prison --
28. Sussex 1 State Prison --
29. Back in the hole --
30. A pile of hair around my feet --
31. Drinking age --
32. Names --
33. Most of the way home --
34. The color line --
35. Pronouncing the word Soledad --
36. Every admission amounts to this --
Epilogue.
Responsibility: R. Dwayne Betts.

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At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts--a good student from a lower-middle-class family--carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is an offense requiring treatment as an adult. A bright young kid, weighing only 126 pounds, he served his eight-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. This is his coming-of-age story. Utterly alone--and with the growing realization that he really is not going home any time soon--Dwayne confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and the justice system, and above all, a quest for identity. --From publisher description.

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Sincere memoir describes modern prison life

by vleighton (WorldCat user published 2010-09-02) Very Good Permalink

This book is a very sincere memoir of a promising young African-American man who ends up in prison for several years. While it is not a great work of world literature, it is a clear and sobering account of modern America and the predicament in which the young--and...
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