Book Review: I don’t wish nobody to have a life like mine – by David Chura 5*

I don’t wish nobody to have a life like mine (Tales of kids in adult lockup)

This is a non-fiction book, but many of David Chura’s stories about life on the inside of a detention centre for the juveniles that he taught there have a fictional quality. It’s funny in places, and in some, as lyrical as many of my favourite novels. We learn something of the drug addicted, alcoholic, and downright appalling parenting that led many of the young people down the murky path to a jail cell. The author po...