I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Expose of the California Youth Authority by Dwight Edgar Abbott Paperback Book

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Rent I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Expose of the California Youth Authority

Author: Dwight Edgar Abbott

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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