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Up In Here - Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side (Paperback)
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Up In Here - Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side (Paperback)
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Raised in a comfortable Dallas suburb, Mark Dostert crossed
cultural and socioeconomic boundaries as a college student by
volunteering as a counselor at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary
Detention Center, Chicago's infamous 500-cell juvenile jail, known
locally as the Audy Home. Inmates there had been indicted on
first-degree murder, rape, and carjacking charges, yet some
enthusiastically met with him for weekly Bible-based lessons and
discussions. Dostert formed friendly relationships with his
students and envisioned becoming an even closer mentor to the
legally troubled boys when he became an employee there after
graduating from college.
The juveniles' attitudes toward Dostert change, however, once he
begins working as a "Children's Attendant" at the Audy Home,
clocking in for eight hours every day to enforce rules and maintain
order on the cellblocks. His colorblind, altruistic volunteer world
fractures into a full-time, emotionally charged reality of white
and black and brown. When the boys change, he must change too.
Despite wanting to help them feel human in such a dehumanizing
environment, Dostert realizes he needs to make sure his kindness is
not perceived as weakness. Dostert learns to march the juveniles
through the facility to school, recreation activities, and chapel.
He must strip-search them, interrupt their brawls, root through
their cells for drugs and handcrafted weapons, and monitor group
showers to thwart sexual extortion and the inscription of gang
symbols in soap on walls and mirrors. Week after week and month
after month, the job exposes hidden views not only of the juveniles
and the "system" incarcerating them, but of Children's Attendant
Dostert himself.
From one man's struggle to reconcile his humanitarian intentions
with his actual job responsibilities in what, to him, is a strange
new world, emerges a sincere effort to confront the realities of
America's persisting racial tensions and institutionalized poverty.
Dostert's story is an honest and unflinching journey from thinking
he has many of the answers for how to change this world to
discovering how little he really knows about the world he is trying
to change.
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