A question of freedom : a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison / R. Dwayne Betts.

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...

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Main Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Avery, ©2009.
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Holy Cross Note:"First trade paperback edition, 2010" -- Title page verso.

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505 0 |a Part I: The new world. Thirty minutes ; Things I know and don't know about my father ; Fairfax County Jail : R cells ; Will you accept this call? ; Halfway to hell ; A need for space ; The meaning of a tattoo ; Running from trouble ; The tale of a high school diploma ; Joseph's hand ; Another bullet to the brain ; The forgiveness parade ; Penalties and broken illusions ; Transfer -- Part II: Running toward the past. A different kind of road trip ; An old story ; Prison 101 : SRC, an intro ; The mathematics of reunions and a nation ; Names and naming ; Finally, the knowledge or something close to it ; Another trip in the wrong direction ; Weed ; The people I knew ; The cost of a knife ; Fishing from the hole -- Part III: We never know. Fifteen hours to a super max ; How to make a knife in prison ; Sussex 1 State Prison ; Back in the hole ; A pile of hair around my feet ; Drinking age ; Names ; Most of the way home ; The color line ; Pronouncing the word Soledad ; Every admission amounts to this -- Epilogue. 
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