“I’ve been in the system since I was 12. The judge hates me and will never let me go home. I chewed through my cell window and escaped. I opened up some other doors and let three other kids out. Two of them jumped us when we got out and were hiding by some abandoned trucks and cars– one of them is in 19 across the cottage in his cell. Boring here so I lie on the floor and just watch things. They don’t give you no pens, no pencils, no nothing. They aren’t letting me out because I shit on my food tray and they’re pissed.”

- C.R, age 17, Nevada Youth Training Facility, Elko, NV

C.R. chewed out the window of his cell and opened the door from the outside. He is a career juvenile … Read More »