A question of freedom : a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison
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A question of freedom : a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison
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The work A question of freedom : a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- A question of freedom : a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison
- Title remainder
- a memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison
- Statement of responsibility
- R. Dwayne Betts
- Title variation
- Memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison
- Subject
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- trueAfrican American prisoners -- Biography
- trueFormer convicts -- United States -- Biography
- truePoets, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- truePrisoners -- United States -- Biography
- truePrisoners -- Virginia -- Biography
- trueAfrican American men -- Identity
- trueResponsibility in African American men
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Prisons -- Virginia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Award
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- Street Lit Book Award Medal: Adult Non-Fiction, 2010
- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2015.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Dewey number
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- 365/.42092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV9468.B48
- Literary form
- non fiction
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