TORONTO - Sept. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- Reader's Favorite recognizes “Deprived of a Fighting Chance” in its 2015 international book award contest with a silver medal in the non-fiction-occupational category.
The 2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest featured thousands of contestants from over a dozen countries.
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“Readers’ Favorite is proud to announce that "Deprived of a Fighting Chance" by Ghi Dean is a Silver Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - Occupational category in our 2015 International Book Award Contest.”
In “Deprived of a Fighting Chance” a teacher reveals the callous truth about the ins and outs of working rehabilitation in a detention centre in the early nineteen nineties. Using a broom closet as an office, she put up with harassment and jumbles of red tape from a constantly changing set of managers while trying to deliver correspondence courses to adult inmates and learn the special procedures of working in a maximum security facility. Read about the ups and downs as she develops the education program with the help of volunteers, how rehab programs affect life in the jail and how some correction staff learned to value rehab programs.
Ghi Dean is a retired French and Spanish teacher, who has three children and nine grandsons. She is a retired high school teacher with many years’ experience teaching French and Spanish. But the experience she found the most rewarding experience was when she became Education Coordinator in a maximum-security detention centre. She has published a cartoon book (No Smart Answers) about high school, developed materials for the French classroom and written Deprived of a Fighting Chance.
Review by Eduardo Aduna for Readers’ Favorite
Nelson Mandela once said that a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. Ghislaine Dean's novel shows us how one of the "advanced" countries in the world deals with its prisoners -and it's not a pretty sight. Rehabilitation clashes with punishment and inmates are given intermittent rays of hope while being stuck in an endless cycle of hopelessness and desolation. Ghislaine Dean's experiences were written with such emotional frankness that I found myself commiserating with her frustrations and celebrating with her whenever she encounters tiny triumphs.
Deprived of a Fighting Chance: An Inside Look at Rehabilitation in a Canadian Detention Centre is a beautifully raw and personal account of encountering ordinary people trying to do good things and being shut down by a bureaucratic system intent on keeping change, even if it is positive, to a minimum. It shows first-hand how being inside a detention center can distort the humanity of inmates, staff and guards; and reduce a supposedly rehabilitative facility into a melting pot of simmering hate and frustration that can only inevitably explode. Irritation and understanding clash whenever the correctional officers act more inhuman than the inmates under their charge. It is both sobering and frustrating to read each quote, each anecdote and each conversation about men and women trying their best in adverse conditions - only to be hindered by the very system that's supposed to help them eventually become productive members of society. I found my fists clenched while reading the chapter about Paul D. and my eyes wet when learning about the plight and determination of Farah H.
The novel shows how tiny glimmers of compassion, wrought by dedicated individuals, can touch the lives of the down-trodden and the desperate, and give them hope and motivation to become better than they currently are. With frank, no-nonsense prose that tackles a tricky subject head on, Ghislaine Dean's Deprived of a Fighting Chance: An Inside Look at Rehabilitation in a Canadian Detention Centre is one of those rare books that I would have no qualms recommending to everyone I know.
“Deprived of a Fighting Chance” is available as a paperback from Amazon.com and as an e-book from reputable e-stores such as the iBookstore, Kindle, Amazon.com. Nook, Copia and others.
Learn more at: http://readersfavorite.com/book-review/deprived-of-a-fighting-chance
Ghi Dean, author,
“Deprived of a Fighting Chance”
Phone: 905 637-2054
ghi.dean@cogeco.ca
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