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For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of one man's nuanced perspective on a unique group of young people. Paranoia & Heartbreak tells Gold's personal story of coming to terms with people who have crossed over to the other side of their own humanity. Writing from ample experience and with unflinching compassion, Gold brings the reader to see these "deviants"—and through them, in some slanted way, our whole society—with an unexpected intensity.
Jerome Gold is the author of ten books, including Sergeant Dickinson (Soho Press, 1999), which was based on his experiences in the US Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War. He is also the publisher of Black Heron Press.
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Scott Owens
reviewed Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility on July 26, 2012
Paranoia & Heartbreak
One of the most devastating and heartbreaking books I've ever read. There is such immediacy with Gold's journals which is great, but I would have like a little more perspective too. Amazing record of the growing war on children in the USA.
PARANOIA AND HEARTBREAK by Jerome Gold is made up of unedited entries in the journals Gold kept while he worked at Ash Meadow, a juvenile detention center in rural Washington State. The candid and personal nature of this book makes it a compelling read. Gold, although always sympathetic to the juveniles in his care, nevertheless confesses to viewing some of them as incorrigible, irreparably damaged by abuse or just plain irritating. He profiles several inmates who made an impression in him during his years at Ash Meadows but also goes into some depth about the political complexities he faced in this unionized but underfunded environment.
Gold doesn't take special care in detailing either the background or the race of the inmates he profiles but readers get the impression that this is definitely a racially mixed group, if not very economically mixed. These are poor kids, most of them victims of abuse, some of them are gang involved and many have been addicted. True to its title, there's a lot of heartbreak in this book, quite a bit of paranoia and not much hope. That's the reality I guess. Gold was there for fifteen years so he would know.
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