Don't Go 2 Prison: A Five Step Guide to Keep Your Black Child out of the Judicial System

By Mohammed Luwemba

Don't Go 2 Prison (A Five Step Guide to Keep Your Black Child out of the Judicial System) is a masterpiece of first hand experiences, knowledge and tried and true methods to assist Black parents in the fight to keep Black children from falling victim to the predatory judicial system. Mohammed S. Luwemba brings over fifteen years of experience working in the juvenile justice system as a counselor, mentor, case manager and most recently criminal defense attorney to this practical five step guide that any parent can follow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098345730

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© Mohammed Luwemba 2021

eBook ISBN: 978-1-09834-573-0

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Preface

The purpose of the Don’t Go 2 Prison Initiative and brand is to deter Black Youth from going to prison. Even though the initiative officially started in 2017, it has actually been a journey for me that started over fourteen years ago when I started working as a Treatment Specialist in a juvenile facility for abused and neglected young men in the city of Detroit.

Although I had vast experience working with Black male youth as an organizer and activist in college through my student organization, and on student government, for the most part most of the brothers I organized with came from the same background as myself.

During the interview process the Director of the facility told me that I would learn more about myself while working with these youth than I ever did in my life leading up to that point. He was correct.

The facility I worked in from any given time had from ten to sixteen young men as residence. These youth came from very diverse circumstances, but all had a few things in common. All of the young men had been abused in some way or another growing up to a point where the state felt it was best to take them out of the home and put them in state custody. All of the young men had a deep mistrust for adults, and for most of them violence was the great equalizer.

Many of them reminded me of some of my friends growing up. Young men who had the leadership skills of dictators, speaking skills of great orators, and fearlessness of the world’s most accomplished conquerors. Unfortunately, like many Black male youths those raw skills never got a chance to be developed because they had absolutely no one in their lives to help encourage them to develop these skills into their full potential. More often than not many would end up settling on the standard go to for so many Black male youths whose dreams have been crushed by society, and their own lack of knowledge of self. As a result, it was common to hear grandiose dreams of wanting to be a rapper