Back to work...slow day again...answering phones, opening doors, processing paperwork for releases, monitoring cameras, and the facility count. We took in as many teens as we released. Our facility count is really low at present...not as many teens committing crimes? not as many teens being detained for the crimes they commit? not as many repeat offenders? not sure why, but we definitely have less teens locked up in juvenile detention at the present moment.
If it's because of less crime, that is a very good thing! We've been joking around that we may have to begin looking for new jobs if the count continues to shrink. Now there's a way to cut a chuck out of the state's financial overload. Just imagine...teens go to school, get jobs, volunteer, follow the basic rules at home and in the community and the state uses the money to provide scholarships and/or grants for more teens to attend college or get some type of technical or job training. Then if we could just get all the adults to stop behaving so badly!! Nightline recently covered a story on a prosecutor in New York that is getting stiffer penalties for drunk drivers who kill. Instead of getting only a few years for reckless endangerment or manslaughter, several drunk drivers have recently been charged with and convicted of murder getting minimums of 15 and 25 years in prison. Personally I think this is a smart move. If you are going to drink alcohol or use drugs, the least you can do is NOT DRIVE. Too many innocent people are being killed. Unfortunately in this area-people killed by drunk drivers-the numbers are going up, not down.
What Is The Answer?
A baby’s life begins
As another’s life is snuffed
A father’s absence felt
Another can is huffed
Faces from many backgrounds
Eyes and hearts searching for hope
Settling instead for imitiations
maryjane, glass pipe or whatever...to cope
Sucked into the vacuum
Lives are out of control
Surveyors of the damage
What exactly is the goal?
Is it mending or conditioning?
These lives torn at the seams
Ever mounting casualties,
Hearts full of broken dreams
Caught in revolving doors
Swimming against the stream
Walking halls of stone
No way out, they scream
The ghetto life offers so little hope
What will become of their futures?
Will they live beyond tomorrow
stitched up with dirty sutures?
Will their minds just be wasted
And their talents neglected or lost?
What is the answer to this madness?
Finding it surely worth any cost!
Looking for the answers
time is running out
For every one that’s a successful release
Many others expected to fail without a doubt
With myriads of options
where have we turned?
It seems there are so many lessons,
yet so little learned.
A baby’s life begins
As another’s life is snuffed
A father’s absence felt
Another can is huffed
Faces from many backgrounds
Eyes and hearts searching for hope
Settling instead for imitiations
maryjane, glass pipe or whatever...to cope
Sucked into the vacuum
Lives are out of control
Surveyors of the damage
What exactly is the goal?
Is it mending or conditioning?
These lives torn at the seams
Ever mounting casualties,
Hearts full of broken dreams
Caught in revolving doors
Swimming against the stream
Walking halls of stone
No way out, they scream
The ghetto life offers so little hope
What will become of their futures?
Will they live beyond tomorrow
stitched up with dirty sutures?
Will their minds just be wasted
And their talents neglected or lost?
What is the answer to this madness?
Finding it surely worth any cost!
Looking for the answers
time is running out
For every one that’s a successful release
Many others expected to fail without a doubt
With myriads of options
where have we turned?
It seems there are so many lessons,
yet so little learned.
tkaeu (2005)
On to a more positive note...I'm downloading a few dance videos from Russia. The Russian dance moves include lots of high flying kicks, low to ground kicks, and lots of kicks in between...mostly just for the men. All I have to say is these guys must be in very good physical shape. From what I've watched of the Superstars of Dance show so far, dance moves for the females in Russia are very dainty, delicate, and feminine...like ballerina or porcelain dolls.
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