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A Question of Freedom
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison | R. Dwayne Betts
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At the age of 16, Betts carjacked a man, and within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. Sentenced to eight years in an adult prison, Betts shares his coming-of-age story, which took place in one of the worst facilities in Virginia.
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Sadly none of the five facilities he ended up serving his 9 year sentence in had any sort of rehabilitation programs. He was left on his own to maintain his sanity while also becoming an adult. Fortunately he had books that helped along the way though they were only part of his journey. After his release he attended Yale and becomes the founder of the FreedomReads.org program. This was very well written and enlightening. I highly recommend.

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"And the thing was, the victims race was the whole point of the story. White cop, white victim. It didn't matter if the gun, the fear, the robbery didn't resolve the oppression that was felt as much as that we were passing on to each other a warped way of dealing with anger that we didn't know we had."