Excerpt from A.W.O.L
Following my first introduction to “the system,” I was locked up and placed in some sort of juvenile detention facility somewhere in the neighborhood of seven to nine times. I couldn’t understand why I kept getting locked up, and worse, I didn’t have anything that even came close to a blueprint for finding my way back to permanent freedom, which at that point I had settled for as the idea of a happy childhood. I was confused, lost, lonely, and sad…
Then, I received a message from someone serving life in adult prison. He simply said, “The system is designed to keep you in the system.” Now, if you’re looking for a conspiracy theory as to how the system works, and why more than half of the kids who enter the system come back for second, third, fourth, or more “tours” you won’t find one here. At the end of the day, as long as we live in a world where young people, like yourself, are born into environments that contain drugs, violence, and/or physical, sexual and emotional abuse, then a youth who enters the system after frequent exposure to any of that will have as hard of a time getting out as he or she will have breaking off from the only world they know anything about. The system, as it stands today, merely becomes a home away from home for many youths in situations like yours.
However, there is hope. And I’ve written this book to not only give you that, but to pass along the knowledge that helped me to escape the system and move on to living a free, peaceful, and more productive life despite bleak circumstances. This process won’t be easy, but then again, nothing in life worth doing is. You’ve been through enough, and now you’ve had enough. So, follow me, and let’s get you out of this place and on to the life you deserve.
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