Carter Lee

There's a few different types of facilities that a juvenile can go to.

The first one I'm going to name is a detention center.

That's a holding facility.

That's where you go when you wait for a court proceeding.

The second one is a residential placement facility.

From my experience, those places can be ultimately worse than some of the secure places because of the amount of freedom that these kids can have.

Then there is secure placements.

Then there is state secure, which is essentially a juvenile prison ran by the state.

So I was born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

It was my mom, my dad, and my older brother.

And we lived there for quite a while.

My mom ended up getting pregnant with my younger brother, which then caused us to have to move out of that apartment.

And we ended up moving to a place

different place in new jersey about 20 minutes away where was your dad he was there he was there the whole time he's still here oh okay we moved to a different apartment complex i guess that's when i started to realize some weird things going on um you know my mom has bipolar disorder you know so what i know now to be bipolar disorder i was just it you know it was just odd behavior

right right so you know one minute she's sleeping for weeks on end you know the next day she's up oh i'm going back to college i'm doing this i'm doing that you know so that was kind of an unsettling environment for me um so we ended up getting kicked out of that apartment complex my brother and some neighborhood kids um flooded the bathrooms and like a recreational facility in the apartment you know they put toilet paper in the urinals and flooded it

Uh, so we got kicked out.

Um, we ended up moving to a different house in New Jersey.

It was like a farm style house.

It was actually a duplex.

We moved there.