Textbook and Shackles

By Carl Smith

I pulled into the prison parking lot and saw the familiar sight:

a local reporter using my prison as a backdrop for another horrific crime.

A crime so brutal you'd assume it was committed by a scar-faced, drug-addled career criminal.

It wasn't.

It was committed by a juvenile - smooth-faced and just a few years out of middle school. And he was about to become one of my students.

He would sit in my classroom alongside other juveniles charged as adults - with drug trafficking, robbery, rape, and murder.

Each one has a story. Each one is a story. No two are the same.

Learn the stories behind the headlines. Step into my classroom. Be in their world.

Carl Smith taught juvenile inmates charged as adults for 28 years in Pennsylvania.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQ63DFNF
• ISBN13: 9798182819718
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Carl Smith
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"