WELCOME
Hello, and welcome to our website.
Not all Prisons Have Bars
The name of our new and about to be released book's name speaks for itself. There are many types and forms of prisons one can dwell in. It is our wish that our piece might help to open the eyes of our taxpayers, congressmen, senators, teachers, counselors and today's young people. It is hoped this book finds its place among other ug addiction books to expose tragic life experiences and how they can affect decisions.
C. J. has been trying to fight 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. Not All Prisons Have Bars, the story of a boy born with an incurable and misunderstood disease known as Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)? On the other hand, maybe it is an indictment of the judicial and prison systems’ insensitivity to the medical needs of American criminals. It could very well be just another glimpse into the tragic world of disillusioned youth, seedy drug culture, and the need to prevent bullying.
Due to the amazing fact that the author has survived firsthand experience with each of these complex problems, the book addresses them all, and from a down-to-earth point of view that to which any reader can relate to. In the end, it is a story about the different walks of life, still struggling to survive in this country, and how often it seems they have no other choice but to accept their destiny and take a fall. Whether a prisoner of society or a deteriorating body, we can see, through C. J.’s experiences, that bars are indeed not necessary to imprison the human spirit.
We follow him through the educational system where the No Child Left Behind program does, in fact, leave him in the dust shaking with tremors caused by the Ritalin prescribed to him for coping with ADHD. The reading then takes us to the broken homes of friends whose parents also are struggling with addictions. If you have ever wondered just what exactly people are referring to in their diatribes against 'the man' or 'the system', then this book may hold the key to your enlightenment.
C. J. shows us the many faces of authority, putting concrete examples in place of abstract notions. One after another, these faces fail C. J. leaving him with no faith in those who would guide this country’s children in their development. If it were not for the support of his family, (most specifically his mother, Ren’ee, who helped compiled this book from her son’s letters and phone calls), the frustrations of living life with Muscular Dystrophy might have led him to give up completely.
Over the course of C. J.’s story, it becomes apparent that the desperation of living with an incurable and misunderstood disease drove him to make some of his more rash decisions. After reading the passage wherein the author is almost arrested when his stumbling gait is mistaken for that of a drunkard’s, I understood the feeling of living in a society that does not seem designed to serve one’s own needs. This book shows that our American “village” is not yet ready to raise its misunderstood children because it is not willing to listen to them.
Several times in his book, the author discusses the possibility that there is a purpose behind his suffering; that maybe his destiny was to live a life caught between the rocks and hard places of society. Whether or not it is divine providence, the author has survived through a series of events and handicaps that could have destroyed others, and in fact did destroy many of his friends and acquaintances along the way. He, himself, is living testament to a silent war being fought between the disadvantaged and the circumstances into which they are born.
This alone gives his suffering meaning. Not All Prisons Have Bars, forces us to ask: for every one person that survives to have his voice heard, how many cries do padded walls, overdoses, or accidents muffle? Can we really expect people to make the correct life decisions if the inhabitants of this story are raising them?
A powerful book inspires such questions. C.J. has opened up a necessary dialogue about the role we all play in the lives of those born behind invisible bars.
David Somlo, student, BMD patient
MY BOOK
Not All Prisons Have Bars
By Ren'ee Bonds & CJ
Order direct here now with your paypal or at:
Book Stores: Baker & Talylor
or pd book store
Paperback 140 pages
ISBN 13: 978-1-58982-550-5
ISBN 10: 1-58982-550-0
ORDER NOW
Click here to ahttp://www.amazon.com/dp/1589825500/ref=asc_df_15898255001078346?tag=stylefeeder-20&creative=380333&creativeASIN=1589825500&linkCode=asndd text.
Copyright 2010 Not All Prisons Have Bars: Coping with ADHD. All Rights Reserved.
