My time will come : a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption

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Label

My time will come : a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption

Title remainder

a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption

Statement of responsibility

Ian Manuel ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson

Creator

• Manuel, Ian

Author

• Manuel, Ian

Subject

• African American prisoners -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- United States
• African American criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography
• Restorative justice -- United States
• Manuel, Ian
• African American juvenile delinquents -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

The story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing) cars with his friends. At age thirteen he shot a white woman in the jaw during a botched mugging. For that crime, and because of his earlier record as a juvenile delinquent, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole--essentially a death sentence. Forgotten by society, tortured by prison guards, held in solitary confinement for eighteen years, he was nonetheless able to accomplish a near-miraculous release from the unimaginable hell of the U.S. correctional system. Unable to afford legal help, through his own determination and strategic thinking, some serendipity, and the all-important help of complete strangers, including Bryan Stevenson and, perhaps most extraordinarily, the woman he shot, he was able eventually to gain his freedom

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 365/.6092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV9468.M26

LC item number

A3 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult