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FN:David Chura
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NOTE:For the last 40 years I have worked as a counselor and as a teacher with at-risk kids, kids "in the system"--foster care, group homes, homeless shelters; drug rehab, psych hospitals; special education, alternative education. I am also a writer. Many times the young people I've come across in my work make it into my writing. "I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup" (Beacon Press) is a collection of narrative nonfiction sketches of the locked up teenagers who I met over the ten years I taught high school in an adult county jail. My writing has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, and Education Next as well as in other literary and scholarly journals. I also am a contributor to Huffington Post, Daily Kos and various other blogs on criminal and juvenile justice and education.
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