A Minimum Secerity Jail

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a minimum secerity jail. No child should have to go to jail at the age of 13. All this child is learning is how much people do not want him and how all they want to do to him is abuse him. Charles spent the better part of his early life moving between different institutions and jails. It is no secert on how mean other inmates or gaurdes can be. One good thing came out of beinging in jail, Charles got free guitar leasons. Charles was only out of prison appoximantly four years of his adult life out of prison. Charles felt at home in prison, this to me is a problem. Charles looked everywhere to find someone to love him and would be proud of him. He found that in young girls who liked what he would sing and preach about. Charles belielfs were

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