Save the Kids from Incarceration was founded in 2009 by four brilliant and hopeful Black youth, Amoud, Jahri, Ali, and Jason, in a juvenile detention facility in New York to liberate and defend all systems impacted by BIYOC. Save the Kids from Incarceration is a national grassroots transformative justice organization dedicated to building a movement for alternatives to and the end of the school to prison pipeline and the policing, criminalizing, and incarcerating of all youth through integrated services ,hip hop, and lowrider advocacy for systems-impacted BIYOC.

• FRANK HERNANDEZ: FOREWORD – JONATHAN PAUL: PREFACE – ACKNOWLEDGMENTS – REV. DAVID E. ROSE SR.: NO WORDS – REV. DAVID E. ROSE SR.: SONGS FOR MOM – EDUARDO TOLENTINO JR.: EVERYONE – TREVOR A. BROWN: THE FALLACY OF JUSTICE – MAURECE L. GRAHAM: TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE – EDUARDO TOLENTINO JR.: MY VIEW – JEFFERY L. YOUNG: JUSTICE IS … – TOBY EARL JOHNSON: TETHERED: WHAT I WANT TO SAY TO MY HEART, HOW MY HEART RESPONDS – HECTOR MEDRANO: THE TEN WRECKS OF PRISON LIFE – TOBY EARL JOHNSON: TEARS OF A PHEONIX – RYAN N. SORENSEN: BEDTIME ROUTINE (POEM) – SARAH LINDSAY LEWIS: TIME – ANDREW ESQUER: SHATTER VISION AND OPEN HEART – ANDREW ESQUER: LIFE LOVE AND PAIN – RUSTY CLARK: TIME – RUSTY CLARK: KARMA – CHERIE CLARK: DEAR ME – MAURECE L. GRAHAM: TELL ME DEAR GOD – MAURECE L. GRAHAM: LUV – MAURECE L. GRAHAM: WHAT ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS – MAURECE L. GRAHAM: PRISON MOTHER – GAETHAN LAGUERRE: YOU KNOW HIM – GAETHAN LAGUERRE: KEYON WUZ HERE – SEAN SWAIN: MY HAND – SEAN SWAIN: I SHALL NOT DIE – SEAN SWAIN: UNFINISHED SONG – SEAN SWAIN: WRETCHED OF THE EARTH – SEAN SWAIN: FUGITIVE THOUGHTS – SEAN SWAIN: RESPONSE TO ODRC COUNSEL TREVOR MATTHEW CLARK’S LECTURE ON ADVOCATING POLITICAL VIOLENCE – SARAH LINDSAY LEWIS: THE JOURNEY HOME – GAETHAN LAGUERRE: THE WHISPERS – C. FAUSTO CABRERA: HOW BLESSED – C. FAUSTO CABRERA: WHEN I ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS READING – C. FAUSTO CABRERA: A LADYBUG’S VISIT – JACOB BURROW: THE PILL (SCIENTIFIC KILLERS) – RYAN N. SORENSEN: HOPE FROM THE BACK OF THE CLOSET – C.H. WILLIAMS: DUKE: AN ALLEGORY – VICTOR PANDO: HOPE IN LIFE – EDITORIAL BOARD.

Its Kina Hard to Cry is real, raw, and revolutionary. Its veins, sinew, and ink written by writers on the inside add depth and dimension to prison literature, a vastly underappreciated genre. Dr. Lea Lani KinikiniChief Diversity Officer, Salt Lake Community College