Not All Prisons Have Bars

C. J. has been trying to fi ght his way out of the penal system since he was fourteen years old. Still, some might say his battle started long before he was born, perhaps in the womb or even generations before his conception with the foundations of American life. In this autobiographical account of C. J.’ s journey through life, he shows us, in clear and brutally honest prose, just what it means to slip through the cracks of society.

Is Not All Prisons Have Bars the story of a boy born with ...