Jail Experience

What do you anticipate learning from our jail visit? What are you feeling about this opportunity, knowing the links between alcohol/drug use and abuse and incarceration? What could/should adults have done for DarRen as he faced abuse

I am beyond excited for all I will experience at the jail visit. I have been to a prison due to a high school field trip, but prison and jail are two different things. With that past experience, I am carrying over some knowledge of what I took in on that trip which is mainly security. For starters, going to the prison, I wasn't allowed to wear a underwired bra, wear tight pants, and I had to have my chest covered. I then went through metal detectors and showed a form of I.D. I know this process I went through …show more content…
I have never been to a jail or see inside (only on crime shows). I wonder how they will look similar and different to a prison. On the other end, I am nervous for how the incarcerated will act towards our class walking through. This opportunity to me, is purely a learning experience. With the simulation we took part in at the beginning of the year, it shows how easy it is to end up in jail after being released. You could be doing all the right things, and still end up in jail. As we walk through the jail and see these people behind bars, I hope to not make judgements. I hope to be wide minded in the fact that they are not bad people, they are just going through a bad time in their life. As a human race, we are so awfully quick to judge someone. I don't want to do that in this experience. Everyone has a story, and until I have yet to hear someone's story, I can't judge. I hope I can learn to lose some of the biases I was raised with, and this is an opportunity for me to do so. I am expecting to hear about/see a lot of people that are incarcerated because of their alcohol or drug usage. Since people usually end up in jail because of this, it will be interesting to hear the perspectives …show more content…
I don't know how someone could hear about his situation and do nothing. There comes a point where a person let alone a child, can only take so much abuse before they snap. My heart goes out to DaRen and the life he had been through at a young age. My stomach was just upset after reading about the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse DaRen faced. First off, he shouldn't have been blamed so terribly for something that happen at the age of 3. He was a child and his actions should have been forgiven. I was heart broken by the way his family treated him. The name calling, the torture, then comes the encounters with Carl. He is such a sick guy. He not only took advantage of his younger brother, but making him perform sexual favors made me so furious. I don't know how DaRen or any child could get through is. The fact that DaRen didn't really know what was going on, but still knew it was wrong said it all. He was an innocent, a child, but Carl took that from him. The amount of damage abuse can do to a person will have lasting effects. DaRen not having trust in his sexual partners later on and then being sterile due to the sexual punishments, are things that DaRen will have forever in the back of his head. I wish his mother could've welcomed him in once she came home from rehab. It would've proved to the brothers that his mom still loves him. She was awful for not forgiving him right