Ellis Jones

He doesn't have a mental health diagnosis.

But they still decide they're not going to send me to boot camp.

That's that's what I'm told when I leave the hearing.

Right.

And so I walk.

I go back to my cell.

My probation officer comes back a couple of days later and he's like, all right, I got some good news and some bad news.

He's like, good news is in a couple of days you're going to get out on electronic monitor.

You need to go home for a little while.

The bad news is you're going to boot camp.

And I had heard all the stories that boot camp was this really gnarly experience.

Right.

They have like a shock program for younger kids where they'll take them into the Pinellas County boot camp for like a 12-hour stay, not the kids who are doing the six months there.

It's an eight-month program, six months of boot camp, four months of boot camp, four months of transition.

This story gets pretty wild pretty quick.

You look like you're getting bored.

No, I'm just playing.

But so...

I go to boot camp, and I actually had an opportunity to abscond.

The first night that I get out of JDC, I get out late.