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$12.99 Softback: 80 pages |
Life in Prison
By Stanley Tookie Williams As a boy, Williams heard the older kids who’d served time tell stories that made prison sound glamorous and fun, a place to hang out with your friends and prove how tough you were. But now, after years on San Quentin’s death row for the murders of four people, Williams, co-founder of the Los Angeles Crips gang, knows that prison “is no place you’d ever want to be.” In this slender volume, he explains why: the cramped quarters, lack of freedom and privacy, homesickness, violence and daily indignities (strip searches, having to use the toilet in public). Williams often goes beyond mere description, asking readers to imagine or emulate his experiences (“To get a feel for what it’s like to live in a prison cell, test yourself. Spend ten hours?nonstop and alone?in your bathroom”), an effective technique. Though the book’s stated goal is to warn kids away from Williams’s path, its matter-of-fact, often homogenized tone connotes more of a plea for sympathy than a caution intended to frighten kids. Co-author Becnel’s foreword contributes to this problem, although the stark black-and-white photographs of Williams, San Quentin and other prisons and prisoners toughens the tone to some degree. Those concerned that purchasing the book will profit a convicted killer can be reassured: Williams’s royalties will be donated to the Institute for the Prevention of Youth Violence. |
You will foreva be remembered to cuz 4 life
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REST iN PEACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3
rip peace king tookie alwas will i represent in a positive
-Yes ; RIP to the Greatest my nigha raw as hell for that ; Gotta love folks ;
Irish people who use Americanisms such as Cellphone, Station Wagon, Gas, Sidewalk and as Fill tiomenned earlier, Store.Also, Culchies who culchie up their accent when they go abroad or in Dublin (same thing). Yeah we know you’re from Leitrim because you wear your GAA jersey to work.
this is a really good book he could have been a whole lot more if he hadn’t went to prison this book really stand out to teens like me