Author: Betts, Dwayne

Price: $11.99

Category:Community & Culture Biographies
Publication Date:2010-05-04T00:00:01Z
Pages:256
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1583333967
ISBN:13:9781583333969
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.