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Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice
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About Boy With A Knife: A Story Of Murder, Remorse, And A
Product Description Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States. On any given day, ten thousand youth are detained or incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. Putting a human face to these sobering statistics, Boy With A Knife tells the story of Karter Kane Reed, who, at the age of sixteen, was sentenced to life in an adult prison for a murder he committed in 1993 in a high school classroom. Twenty years later, in 2013, he became one of the few men in Massachusetts to sue the Parole Board and win his freedom. The emotional and devastating narrative takes us step by step through Karter's crime, trial, punishment, and survival in prison, as well as his readjustment into regular society. In addition to being a powerful portrayal of one boy trying to come to terms with the consequences of his tragic actions, Boy With A Knife is also a searing critique of the practice of sentencing youth to adult prisons, providing a wake-up call on how we must change the laws in this country that allow children to be sentenced as adults. Review "With skillful storytelling and rigorous research, Jean Trounstine shows us in Boy With A Knife why young people engage in crime and violence, how we can create rehabilitation and redemption for those caught up in the system. This book shows why youth justice should move to the top of our national priorities if we want safe and equitable communities for all Americans."― Piper Kerman, author of the New York Times bestselling Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison "Books like Jean Trounstine’s Boy With A Knife are urgently needed. Through the gripping story of Karter Reed, Trounstine argues passionately that locking up youth in adult prisons is cruel but sadly not unusual punishment. Reed stands for all the kids whose lives have been stunted, if not broken, by the failed policies of “tough on crime,” and he is one of the survivors. Through more than 100 letters, he taught her―and her book teaches us―to demand a more just criminal justice system."― Nell Bernstein, author of Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison and All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated “This is Karter Reed’s story. Reading it, you walk away with how a boy with a knife becomes a man whose future and past are hinged on the life that he has taken. The system is horrific, but the system is just the backdrop. Because what Jean Trounstine reveals in Boy With A Knife is partly what happens between the moment that two lives end and, much later, when one begins again. If there is a shadow that this book casts over readers, it is Karter’s regret. And in the end, that is the lesson worth remembering.”― Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Bastards of the Reagan Era " Boy With A Knife does for Karter Kane Reed what the media, policy makers, even advocates have failed to for decades―namely, tell the stories of those who have been imprisoned, how they got there, what happened to them, and even why. Jean Trounstine tells Karter's story with warmth, with complexity, with nuance, framing a critical contemporary debate with a very, very human face."― Nancy Gertner, former U.S. federal judge, named one of “The Most Influential Lawyers of the Past 25 Years” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly "Jean Trounstine has delivered a searing wake-up call about the need to reform and redeem our juvenile justice system. Sentencing children as adults is neither productive nor morally sound, and the tale of Karter Kane Reed exemplifies that truth."― Shon Hopwood, author of Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption " Boy with a Knife is a masterful narrative rooted in the tragedy of a life lost and another launched into a complex journey of transformation. It is a must read for teachers and students, advocates and policy-makers, parents and youth on the meaning of justice."― Robert Kinscherff, National Center f
