New Consciousness Review Winter 2015 | Page 22

OUR WORLD It would be hard to overstate how utterly profound and moving I found “Peace Behind the Wire.” For one thing, it holds a mirror up to us as a society that permits the levels of poverty, poor education and lack of employment options that make street gangs and drug dealing one of the few means of survival. It also explains how youngsters may come into the system for minor offenses,