Research Catalog

Title

My time will come : a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption / Ian Manuel ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Author

Manuel, Ian

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Stevenson, Bryan

Description

xiii, 201 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "The wrenching, and inspiring, story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's greatest contemporary legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing) cars with his friends. At age thirteen he shot a white woman in the jaw during a botched mugging. For that crime, and because of his earlier record as a juvenile delinquent, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole--essentially a death sentence. Forgotten by society, tortured by prison guards, held in solitary confinement for eighteen years, he was nonetheless able to accomplish a near-miraculous release from the unimaginable hell of the U.S. correctional system. Unable to afford legal help, through his own determination and strategic thinking, some serendipity, and the all-important help of complete strangers, including Bryan Stevenson and, perhaps most extraordinarily, the woman he shot, he was able eventually to gain his freedom. Full of unexpected twists and turns, the narrative is at times harrowing, disturbing, and painful, but, ultimately it is astoundingly evocative of the power of human will"--
• Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing) cars with his friends. At age thirteen he shot a white woman in the jaw during a botched mugging. For that crime, and because of his earlier record as a juvenile delinquent, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole--essentially a death sentence. Forgotten by society, tortured by prison guards, held in solitary confinement for eighteen years, he was nonetheless able to accomplish a near-miraculous release from the unimaginable hell of the U.S. correctional system. Unable to afford legal help, through his own determination and strategic thinking, some serendipity, and the all-important help of complete strangers, including Bryan Stevenson and the woman he shot, he was able eventually to gain his freedom.

Subject

• African American prisoners > Biography
• African American criminals > Rehabilitation > Biography
• African American juvenile delinquents > Biography
• Restorative justice > United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States
• Discrimination in juvenile justice administration > United States
• African American juvenile delinquents
• African American prisoners
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Discrimination in juvenile justice administration
• Restorative justice
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-201).

Call Number

Sc D 22-76

ISBN

• 9781524748524
• 1524748528

LCCN

2020045133

OCLC

1175680831

Author

Manuel, Ian, author.

Title

My time will come : a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption / Ian Manuel ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-201).

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-76