30 Years & a Wake Up was written with the intention of helping today's troubled kids. It is an inspirational story of survival through poverty, tragic personal loss and the criminal justice system in Kansas. It tells a story that will grip its readers, then encourage them to change through inspiration and example. The story follows the author's life, from being raised in low-income housing in the mid 1970's, through tragic personal loss as a teen and into the Kansas prison system, where he learned to survive with no help from the outside world. 30 Years & a Wake Up gives an insightful, honest look into day to day living in the toughest prisons in Kansas, while showing how the author slowly applied the principles of cognitive therapy and created genuine change in his life.