Locked Up and Put Away - Geez, Booker
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Booker Geez goes from the free-spirited world of the clothing industry to the restriction and the chaos of juvenile detention in a true Bronx Tale of a fathers love for his children. As a juvenile counselor Booker is confronted with his moral judgement and his obligatory responsibilities while becoming more institutionalized than the children he is paid to protect. This tell all book is a glance into the crooked world of city agencies that oppress those on their payroll and neglect needs of the children under their care. When society asked the question, "Where the Wild Things Are?" The answer…mehr

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Booker Geez goes from the free-spirited world of the clothing industry to the restriction and the chaos of juvenile detention in a true Bronx Tale of a fathers love for his children. As a juvenile counselor Booker is confronted with his moral judgement and his obligatory responsibilities while becoming more institutionalized than the children he is paid to protect. This tell all book is a glance into the crooked world of city agencies that oppress those on their payroll and neglect needs of the children under their care. When society asked the question, "Where the Wild Things Are?" The answer is that they are in detention. With the school-to-prison that exist in this country Locked Up and Put Away has the potential to educate parents and their teenage children on the dangers and toxic atmosphere that thrive these facilities. Locked Up and Put Away will attack street culture at its core and dispel the myth that going to jail is a rights-of-passage for Black and Latino men. Locked Up and Put Away is a raw depiction of how life is on the inside of a secure detention, describing everything from the outfits to the slang used to communicate between the youth offenders, to the size of their rooms. This book is scared straight on paper and engages the reader in endless situations from incidents involving youth offenders placed in the facility, the staff responsible for their care and the administration watching over the staff. This book has everything from sex, to drugs to hip-hop music as the backdrop with incidents involving street gangs that fight for control of the building against the juvenile counselors paid to control them. Readers are taken on a rollercoaster ride of jaw dropping events that come to a powerful conclusion at the hands of a system that has out lived its existence.
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Autorenporträt
BOOKER GEEZ represents the anger mob in us all. Born in the Bronx, New York Booker is the product of a mother who was a college Professor and a father who was a photographer in the 1960's before his untimely death at the hands of a drunk driver in 1970. Booker graduated from Delaware State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fashion Merchandising. After working as a freelance clothing designer Booker created his own collection of women's streetwear and ultimately his own boutique in the Harlem section of New York. Parental obligations became a priority and to provide stability for his son and daughter he sacrificed his dream of designing to become a juvenile counselor for the Department of Juvenile Justice in the Bronx. This is where his story begins and ends at the hands of a city agency with a turnover rate higher than any other agency in New York City. Booker currently lives in New York City where he works in the private sector with adolescents put at risk and raises his children. Locked Up and Put Away is his first book.