These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.

Edward Humes
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  1. We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

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  3. Take a trip in my mindsee all that I've seen, and you'd be called abeast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause there'snot much I can do, there's no way out, myscreams have no voice nomatter how loud I shout... I could be called alow...

  4. It's not like they can take anything from me, ' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.

  5. Locking everyone up is not the solution, ' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.

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