One of the themes of the Hersh defense is that sending their son Isaac was an appropriate choice and apparently they would do it again if they need a facility for educating a difficult teen. What follows is a description of a teenager who was sent to Tranquility Bay.
P.U.R.E
When I was fifteen years old I was expelled from Cy-Fair Independent School District in Houston, Texas, after two girls to whom I had sold LSD were hospitalized.
That was the fourth year in a row I had been expelled from school, the first time being in the sixth grade for possession of a controlled substance. The district had lost its patience with me.
I was ordered to attend a non-district school operated by the juvenile justice department. Only eighty kids from every district in the Houston metropolitan area – an area with a population over four million – attended the school. As I was introduced to the school, I was told by the police officer in charge "this is where we educate the future inmates of TDC."
The system had lost hope for me.
After several failed drug tests, and several charges of disorderly conduct, school officials informed my parents that I was going to be incarcerated by the state.[...]
P.U.R.E
When I was fifteen years old I was expelled from Cy-Fair Independent School District in Houston, Texas, after two girls to whom I had sold LSD were hospitalized.
That was the fourth year in a row I had been expelled from school, the first time being in the sixth grade for possession of a controlled substance. The district had lost its patience with me.
I was ordered to attend a non-district school operated by the juvenile justice department. Only eighty kids from every district in the Houston metropolitan area – an area with a population over four million – attended the school. As I was introduced to the school, I was told by the police officer in charge "this is where we educate the future inmates of TDC."
The system had lost hope for me.
After several failed drug tests, and several charges of disorderly conduct, school officials informed my parents that I was going to be incarcerated by the state.[...]
What does this story have to do with Tranquility Bay?
ReplyDeleteIt is all about this institution in Tranquility.
ReplyDeleteAn inmate's testimony, pretty congruent witht the Guardian's article a few years later.
TDC = Texas Department of Corrections?
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