Locked Up and Put Away is a tell-all book that is a glance into the crooked world of a city agency whose sole purpose is to rehabilitate youth at risk but with a spurious attempt have an inordinate turnover rate of the staff that eclipse any other agency in the city. When society ask the question, “Where the Wild Things Are?”, the answer is that they are in DETENTION. Locked Up and Put Away has the potential to educate parents and their teenage children on the dangers and toxic atmosphere that thrive in these facilities while it attacks street culture at its core. It’s a raw depiction of how life is on the inside in secure detention. You will be engaged in the endless situations the author encounters that have everything from sex, drugs and hip-hop as the backdrop with incidents that lead to violence and in one case death. Readers are taken on a rollercoaster ride of jaw dropping events that come to a powerful conclusion at the hands of a system that has outlived its existence.