Tag: reform school
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July 10, 2007 07:35 PM EDT --
"The record before me indicates that you are constantly getting into trouble. What seems to be the problem?" asked the judge.
"I don't know why I get into trouble all the time. I do . . .
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July 25, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
It would take me about 15 minutes to walk from the front office back to Roosevelt Cottage. It was time for me to go and I was in no hurry to leave. I was not sure exactly what it was I was feeling at the . . .
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July 27, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
I will never forget the fear I felt when I was cornered in that long prison hallway with a large black man standing in front of me holding a shank (prison-made knife) threatening to cut my throat.
"You . . .
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January 19, 2009 10:29 PM EST --
I love this song from The Other Sister . One part of it says that the person singing it doesn't know if there's a Heaven, and I want to establish . . .
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January 31, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
No, I'm not talking about The White House that we're most familiar with--although there IS a Black male involved, but one that was in a cyllander-shaped clothes-dryer unit instead of an oval . . .
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May 22, 2009 02:18 PM EDT --
Hi all:
As folks who are looking for rich information about education issues, but who are also eager to discuss school improvements and reform, I thought you would be especially interested in a new . . .
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October 18, 2009 04:14 PM EDT --
Over the past twenty-five years many have thanked me for the work I have done for abused children, protecting the elderly, teen suicide, legally representing children on welfare, the exposure of the twenty-three . . .
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July 08, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
I was living in California when I received a telephone call. Someone told me that the woman who took me out of the juvenile shelter and welcomed me to her home for Thanksgiving dinner had died.
That was . . .
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July 09, 2007 02:41 PM EDT --
I remember well the day that I decided to become a criminal. There was very little doubt in my mind that I knew the difference between ‘right' and ‘wrong.' Nevertheless, I was going . . .
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August 26, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
A TRUE STORY
By the age of four, Roger Dean Kiser had been abandoned, first by his parents and then his grandparents and placed in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. Unable to adapt to the difficult, . . .
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August 30, 2007 10:02 AM EDT --
After speaking to some of my adult son's friends, many of whom were already in serious debt, I was shocked that they didn't know some basic financial info.In fact, one . . .
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January 22, 2009 02:45 PM EST --
My book "The White House Boys-An American Tragedy" was released to larger book stores today. Having received 6 free books; I will autograph these five copies and give them away to . . .
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January 06, 2008 01:31 PM EST --
Before I began writing about child abuse and related issues, I ran across a gentleman whose name is Larry Eugene Peterson. Before I could contact him, unfortunately he died. His childhood story is similar . . .
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July 08, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . .
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July 09, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
"Poison Ivyyyyyyyyyyy. Poison Ivyyyyyyyyyyyy," sang the Coasters from the large loud speaker of Cottage Twelve located at the Florida School for Boy Reformatory in Marianna, Florida.
The Duval . . .
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July 27, 2007 04:58 PM EDT --
It was Sunday Morning and I began to worry when my friend Wendall LeRoy Archer did not show up at E-block. That was the cellblock where I was assigned while incarcerated at the Federal Prison at Lompoc, . . .
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August 10, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
There is a place on the face of this earth that I know well. It is a place where secret devils have dwelled for more than seventy years. Horrible and inexcusable memories are still being produced there, . . .
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August 14, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
The sounds that are made by large steel prison doors slamming are sounds that have never left my mind or my ears even after 40 something years. That horrible hollow echo bounced off one steel wall to another . . .
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June 16, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
Hi All:
I just wanted to follow up on a post I made a few weeks back regarding a research report about bringing down dropout rates. The authors of the study just produced a new podcast which sums up . . .
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August 30, 2007 12:45 AM EDT --
Here's the hard truth: many families won't talk about finances with their kids. Studies have shown that MANY parents are actually more comfortable discussing sex than family . . .
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