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I wish you no ill will either. Sadly have taken in children over the years I can tell you some of them were just hopeless. Drug addicts who would have done anything & did for money. One family on my street went through hell with their 2 sons. Prison time didn't work for either of them & trust me the parents had the best lawyers for them. We thought the oldest had kicked his habit but sadly he died. When I saw the 2nd son & we talked I really thought his brother's death & a few friends deaths while he was in prison had made an impression on him. He was very convincing & I thought he would get on with his life. Sadly he didn't & killing a woman during a police chase. Maybe hard time might have helped him, I don't know. I do know parents who enabled these 2 young men didn't help. By the time they realized they were enablers it was too late. One dead son, one son back in jail & a little boy left without a father. It is sad. However I think if both of these boys had stiffer sentences for all the crimes they had committed over the years they both might be here today. This isn't the only case where I wish stiffer sentences had been imposed either. I know of another boy who did a long time in juvie, got out & went back to drugs & died. With him there was little help for him after jail. I used to work with mainly bad boys & like I said I've seen quite a bit. It is sad & heartbreaking.

I know TE doesn't care who likes him or not. He stands by what he says & I respect him for it. If you know you don't agree with him why post to him?

Bless you for the great things you’ve done and for what you’ve tried to do. Hard labor in which the kids have to do months or a year (depending on the sentence) of very hard work from dusk to dawn would probably work better than the current prison system where they sit in boredom doing nothing, sometimes having been sentenced to years of that and learn from murderers, drug dealers, etc. That to me seems like a recipe for disaster. Re TE - My only posts to him were replies.