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Thugness Is A Virtue
A Teacher's First Year in Juvenile Hall

Authored by Hannah Wehr
Cover design or artwork by Geoff Melville
Edited by A. Razor

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About the author:
Hannah Wehr has spent seven years teaching poetry, creative writing, and Language Arts in juvenile correctional facilities throughout California. She has spent six years as a performance poet, college lecturer, prison poetry panel member, and is the recipient of awards from the Los Angeles City Council for her assistance in the creation of The Hollywood Institute of Poetics. A contributing author to "What I Know Now: Writings From Inside" from Stanford University and author of "How To Start a Writing Program for Incarcerated Youth", Hannah lives in Northern California where she teaches English, Classic Film, and Drama at a juvenile detention facility in the Bay Area.


Thugness Is A Virtue


'Hannah Wehr presents a bleak, scorchingly funny, to-the-bone account of her first year working in a juvenile detention center. Ostensibly about her teaching experiences, the book is also a stinging indictment of the entire juvenile prison system that repeatedly fails young inmates. Hannah makes compelling arguments for stripping down, re-defining and re-organizing the system. Read these young students' stories. Hear their voices. Be prepared for your heart to be broken and filled and broken and filled again. Hannah Wehr writes from the hip: an unsentimental, direct, clear and essential voice.'


Publication Date:
Nov 28 2014
ISBN/EAN13:
1940213991 / 9781940213996
Page Count:
244
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
6" x 9"
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Related Categories:
Education / Experimental Methods