Ellis Jones

This is a surreal experience, you know?

And then they're telling you your parents don't want anything to do with you.

Settle in for the long stay.

You're 14 years old, and you're not getting out of here until you're 18 if you don't complete the program.

And if your parents don't want you back when you're 18, we're going to give you $50 and a plane ticket to Miami.

And they tell this girl that, and she jumped off the building herself.

Like, and the reality is like, I think maybe one kid I ever heard of, um, that happened to him where his parents wouldn't take him back.

He turned 18.

They sent him to Miami 50 bucks.

He joined the army.

Like, and then I'm down there while nine 11 happens.

So I'm thinking worst case scenario, they're going to go to war.

This country is going to go to war because I didn't really know all the details, but I knew that we were attacking Afghanistan afterwards.

And I'm thinking my only option is that I'm going to get out of here.

I'm going to be 18.

I'm going to have $50 in my pocket.

I'm going to have to go to an army recruiter, join the army, and I'm going to go to war and die.

But that's a lot to put on a kid.

An indefinite sentence is pretty extreme for basically just being like a troublemaker.

Well, the a few of the kids I think had heard about.