my problem with kenneth is that he s committed numerous acts of delinquency. that s what indiana boy school is meant to address. then you factor in that he s had counseling provided to him, and he hasn t been terribly amin bl to the counseling. he has a track record and the track record isn t very good at this point. you know, it s a serious matter for this court to decide that it s going to invest itself in a child to the extent that this county and this court is being asked to invest themselves in kenneth and i don t see that there s going to be a lot of banb for our buck, to be perfectly honest. i think he s a dangerous person. i think he should be committed to indiana boy school. well, i would agree that i think indiana boy school can address a lot of the issues that kenneth is facing. i know this much, if he were in the adult system, he would not be able to receive the treatment
i m the oldest girl, yes. is there a dad in the picture? he was until about four months ago. he was incarcerated. kenneth is the one who s really been the man of the house. he s really our backbone. that s all i have? ma am? no questions, judge. ken, we spoke yesterday about what the court is here today to decide. that is whether you should stay detained or whether you should be released. i should be released because i know i ain t a bad kid. i ain t no harm to nobody. i just made a bad decision at that moment. i know i did something wrong. but i know i can fix it. now i know that life is serious, and life more is about me being at home and being with my family than being locked up. kenneth, how many times have you been on probation with this court? twice. are you on probation right now? yes. is getting involved in criminal acts a violation of
for all of those reasons the court will find he may be a danger to himself or to the community. they ll both remain detained pending that their next hearing is on december 5th. all right. this hearing is adjourned. thank you. i don t like anybody to be in pain. certainly not kids. i love them. i ve been doing this job for 26 years. the work is heartbreaking. but there is no more work that s more important than the work in a juvenile court. i can t do it. i can t do it, man. king arthur: ready! washington: charge! empress wu: charge! (in chinese) king arthur: charge! let your reign begin. evony, the mobile game.
who are the brothers? you two are brothers? it was like a few weeks ago. we had did some stuff over at the bus station. but they just not coming to get us. there are a few places in this world more tightly secured than the closed confines of america s juvenile justice system. but for some kids the revolving door of lockup seems to snag one generation after the next. my dad, he s locked up. so right now it s just my mom and my six sisters and my nieces and nephews and my brother and they all have no man of the house to look up to, to teach them what s right and what s wrong, so it s been hard. 30 miles south of chicago mary beth presides over a numbing juvenile docket. 30,000 cases in 2008 alone. it s her job to make sure the kids that come to this detention center and court complex leave
kids whether in the hearing or outside the hearing is monumental. i think if there was one single thing that i would point to to be able to predict the success or failure of a young person is the family involvement and support. sounds like for about four years now the court has been involved not only with his life, but obviously your life as well. mm-hmm. so he s turned 18 now. you re a family that s had a lot of intervention. pretty quickly there will be none. we are here to back him up 100%. i do have a a lot of family support. everybody is pulling for him. you know, but he has to pull for himself. ma am? judge, i m really torn. everybody s tapdancing around the shooting of devon. that wasn t a stray bullet that entered his arm. that was a purposeful act in response to something devon was doing in a criminal nature. we also have problems he s an