Scripting Detention

<p> Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility this book presents the script of a play about prison life and interweaves the author's creative self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborative experience of writing and staging such a play enacted by prisoners frames a discussion of larger social and political themes in the criminal justice system and of the complexities of getting juveniles to engage with variously positioned mentors.</p>