Peeling the top off his first 12 years in prison, Eddie Ray Gray gives you an intense read.
You'll not only learn what it's truly like to be incarcerated from day one, but also why you'll never want to experience it yourself.
This is the book every at-risk teenager must have, and every adult who wants to keep someone they know out of prison needs to read.
Put on a parachute and double check the rip cord.
You're about to dive into a world often not adequately portrayed,
until now!
Born in Duquesne, PA, in December of 1990, Eddie Ray Gray was given away as an infant, then raised in McKeesport, PA, until his first felony arrest at 10 years old.
Since that arrest, he's spent his adolescent and teenage years in juvenile detention centers, foster homes, residential treatment facilities, psychiatric hospitals, group homes, and independent living facilities across the state of Pennsylvania.
At 17 years old, he began his first semester at the Community College of Allegheny County, North Side branch, pursuing a degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
But fate was cruel and Eddie still had lessons to learn.
He was arrested as an adult before completing his first semester.
Twelve years after his arrest, he's come to understand that his upbringing, mistakes, and self-destructive ways, both while free and during his incarceration, molded him into a prime candidate to pass along a clear and convincing message to the tens of thousands of youth who may be at-risk of following in similar footsteps.
"Think long and hard about your choices, especially before
committing a crime.
Living a life in and out of incarceration is not living at all,
" Eddie states.
He has given a part of himself in 'How Big Do You Want Your Cell?' so those who read it won't have to experience it first hand.
He is currently incarcerated at SCI Mahanoy, Pennsylvania.
252 pages.
Just a side note: Mahanoy, PA is just a few miles from us here at