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In this fictionalized biography, authors Judith Gwinn Adrian and DarRen Morris share stories of privilege and prison, hurt and heart: epistolary accounts of two people raised in the parallel universes of southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois. After serving three months of a 15-year sentence for armed robbery, Judy's father's privilege allowed him to join the military and then become a physician and medical researcher. Some of his research involved human experimentation on prisoners. And DarRen, at the age of 17, was sentenced to life in prison for murder, with a first possible parole date of 100 years. He has now served more than half his life in Wisconsin maximum security prisons. He has become a Rastafarian and a uniquely talented artist. Judy teaches restorative justice, as well as other subjects, at a small college in Wisconsin.… (meer)
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This was a difficult book for me. It was not difficult reading, but it did bring up a lot of reactions. Basically, Adrian was corresponding with a prisoner to try to get a sense of why her deceased father behaved as he did. To me, that sounds like an excuse for corresponding with that particular person since his life was extremely different from her father's. But the letters presented are a valuable presentation of lower class Black American male experiences, and a reflection on the failure of the American "criminal justice" system. In response to questions by Adrian, Morris primarily writes of his experiences of his first 17 years, the importance of family, The values they taught him (which allows us to see where they differ from those of middle class white families), the abuse he received, and how that all translated into his actions. He was deaf (and that may have been caused by some of the abuse) which led to misunderstandings. He lived in a gang environment which required never showing weakness. DarRen also writes of how he has been working on his inner growth in the more than 17 years of his imprisonment, and of some of his prison experiences. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skn and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and help me to confront them. Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present me with heroes who will give me courage and hope. Ease my sorrows and increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain and enchant and enlighten me. Tell me a story. Dennis O'Neil, writer and editor, author of Batman, Green Lantern, and other superhero stories
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
DarRen dedicates this book to the victim in his case, Johnny Lee Fish and the entire Fish family. To all the people I have hurt or harmed in any way. To all victims, especially children. Judy dedicates this book to her father in hopes that telling the story brings peace.
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
That last time I left the prison discussion session, I scanned the gap-toothed razor wire, repeating like an ominous grin in a fun house mirror.
Foreward: The authors describe In Warm Blood as "epistolary stories."
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Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In the moment, however, thousands of boys and girls become men and women, sit in cells they will never call home. And we all lose.
In this fictionalized biography, authors Judith Gwinn Adrian and DarRen Morris share stories of privilege and prison, hurt and heart: epistolary accounts of two people raised in the parallel universes of southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois. After serving three months of a 15-year sentence for armed robbery, Judy's father's privilege allowed him to join the military and then become a physician and medical researcher. Some of his research involved human experimentation on prisoners. And DarRen, at the age of 17, was sentenced to life in prison for murder, with a first possible parole date of 100 years. He has now served more than half his life in Wisconsin maximum security prisons. He has become a Rastafarian and a uniquely talented artist. Judy teaches restorative justice, as well as other subjects, at a small college in Wisconsin.
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Basically, Adrian was corresponding with a prisoner to try to get a sense of why her deceased father behaved as he did. To me, that sounds like an excuse for corresponding with that particular person since his life was extremely different from her father's. But the letters presented are a valuable presentation of lower class Black American male experiences, and a reflection on the failure of the American "criminal justice" system.
In response to questions by Adrian, Morris primarily writes of his experiences of his first 17 years, the importance of family, The values they taught him (which allows us to see where they differ from those of middle class white families), the abuse he received, and how that all translated into his actions. He was deaf (and that may have been caused by some of the abuse) which led to misunderstandings. He lived in a gang environment which required never showing weakness. DarRen also writes of how he has been working on his inner growth in the more than 17 years of his imprisonment, and of some of his prison experiences. (