Dwayne Betts: 2 books

The NAACP Image Award-–winning author of A Question of Freedom examines the failures—and broader repercussions—of America’s broken juvenile justice system.   Over the past four decades, the prison population in America has increased by more than 500 percent, leaving more than three million...

A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life 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...