Carter Lee

You start fighting in that placement.

You're fighting kids.

You're not behaving properly.

The probation officer, the counselor at the placement, they decide, hey, this kid's not going to be here much longer.

So they do what's called an FTA, a failure to adjust.

So they send the kid back to detention, and then the judge has to decide which placement to send to next.

So now he's hopping from placement to placement.

It's been three, four years.

This kid hasn't been home because he just keeps getting worse every place he goes.

Right.

So I start to meet a lot of those kids who, you know, they've been gone four or five years.

I've been gone three weeks, bro.

Like I'm not even like, like we're different people.

Like we're not the same.

Right.

Um, I started, you know, yeah.

Uh, about a month goes by and I remember, uh,

going to court for the, not the first time, but it was the first time that they started sending me back to real court.

So I remember it's my first time actually being like chained to other people going to court.

And, um, the day before the night before they take your shoes, I still don't know why they take your shoes, but they take your shoes in the morning.