Locked Up and Put Away‪:‬

Booker Geez goes from the free-spirited world of the clothing industry to the restriction and  the  chaos  of  juvenile  detention  in  a  true  Bronx  Tale  of  a  fathers  love  for  his  children. As a juvenile counselor Booker is confronted with his moral judgement and his obligatory responsibilities while becoming more institutionalized than the children he is paid to protect. This tell all book is a glance into the crooked world of city agencies that oppress those on their payroll and neglect needs of the children under their care. When  society  asked  the  question, "Where  the  Wild  Things  Are?"  The  answer  is  that  they are in detention. With the school-to-prison that exist in this country Locked Up and Put Away has the potential to educate parents and their teenage children on the dangers  and  toxic  atmosphere  that  thrive  these  facilities.  Locked  Up  and  Put  Away  will attack street culture at its core and dispel the myth that going to jail is a rights-of-passage for Black and Latino men. Locked Up and Put Away is a raw depiction of how life is on the inside of a secure detention, describing everything from the outfits to the slang  used  to  communicate  between  the  youth  offenders,  to  the  size  of  their  rooms.  This book is scared straight on paper and engages the reader in endless situations from incidents involving youth offenders placed in the facility, the staff responsible for their care  and  the  administration  watching  over  the  staff.  This  book  has  everything  from  sex, to drugs to hip-hop music as the backdrop with incidents involving street gangs that  fight  for  control  of  the  building  against  the  juvenile  counselors  paid  to  control  them. Readers are taken on a rollercoaster ride of jaw dropping events that come to a powerful conclusion at the hands of a system that has out lived its existence.