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Rent I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Expose of the California Youth Authority
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 180
Synopsis
'The author's well-written story comes at the reader fast and furiously…shocking readers into an awareness of the inhumanity of America's juvenile penal institutions.'-Publishers Weekly
At age nine, a family tragedy forced Dwight Abbott into the California Youth Authority. This is the chilling chronicle of his life behind bars-a story of brutality and survival, a dark journey showing how the systematic abuse of incarcerated children creates a cycle of criminal behavior that usually ends with prison or death.
Dwight Edgar Abbott, in and out of prison since childhood, is serving multiple life sentences in Salinas Valley State Prison.
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