Yeris Galdamez

A Concrete Jungle Yeris Galdamez

This book is about a young child, who was born in El Salvador, in the beginning of the civil war, at the age of four, his parents immigrated to the United States. Growing up in the ghetto of the Bronx he had to overcome many obstacles. Facing bulling because he was a immigrant, hanging out with the local crew and getting into fights was day to day reality. He managed to gradute high school and attend college. however been discriminated because he was a immigrant he was force to leave school. Thus beginning the cycle of school to prison. He was imprison in the New York state Prison. Spending half of his life in super maximum security prisons