they never end up in jail in the adult department of corrections. that s the ultimate goal is that these kids learn their lesson and never have to face a judge who s worried about how long do we lock this kid up for. i m just going to pick myself back up. that s it. that s all i can do. i don t mean to cry but you know i m just hurt right now. that s okay. this is not a place you want to be. like i said, our job is to get you out. the more stuff you can focus on of the reasons why you shouldn t be in here and you should be out taking care of your child, those are the things that we re going to want the court to hear about tomorrow. rod, you ve convinced me that you re certainly on the right track with things. now our job is to convince the judge tomorrow. you do need some help with your anger. i don t think you re crazy but i think something inside is bothering you. what you think?t 21. i accept i m not the sprinter
i believe it has for morris. i would suggest that we move in increments. we move in increments from where he was before with no real restrictions, just you need to do what we re telling you to do. to now we re going to put a bracelet around your ankle and make sure that you re doing what we say we re going to do. before we jump to the most severe conclusion, the recommendation that he be shipped off away from his family and brothers and sisters who he hasn t seen in a very long time. so i would just ask the court give some credence to what he said on the stand today. thank you. judge, we ve heard that morris has done some soul searching while he s been detained for the last three weeks and apparently has seen the light. i m not sure what light it is he s seeing. what i ve heard is a person that s still not taking responsibility for anything that he does. he s not going to get services unless this court takes him and puts him in a place where he can receive services and he desperately
six weeks to avoid his mother, because he knew there would be a conflict. and so that worries me that he s going to put himself in a situation that s going to become dangerous for him. so for all of those reasons today the court is going to order that he be placed at camp pannia academy and i ll order that his family participate in family counseling along with him, so that he can return home sooner than later. all right. this hearing s adjourned. thank you. say good-bye to your parents. bye. it s for the best. i love you, too. i ll see you. we ll see you there. okay. i think morris is a stinker. good luck. and i think that he gives his mother a run for her money. he s not to the point where he s really a danger to other people. so i don t see him as a hardened criminal at this point in his life. it s my job and the job of the juvenile court system to make sure he doesn t get to that point.
i know i got a problem. but you send me home, trust me, i m going to show you i can work my problem out with my whole family. morris, you remember some time back, we went through a detention hearing where you talked about your background, your history and what you wanted to have happen, correct. yes. we re not going to go through all of that for today s hearing. all i want to know is what you ve learned since you ve been locked up. what i learned is i know how to control my anger. i would like to go home with my family. can the court and can your mother believe you right now when you re saying that. yes. and my father. can you look them in the eye and tell them that that you re going to fully comply with everything. i m going to fully comply. i m going to do better. i m trying to change my life. i don t want to be angry. i got a problem. i admit. what s your problem? i have an anger problem. that s all i have, judge. anything. morris, you said you couldn t go
stand and testified that you ve done it, knowing that you re going to go back out in the same city that you were in when you belonged to that gang and maybe take your chances of what denouncing them might do to you today. you re like this close to succeed. and you re so afraid of that. that it s easier for you to fail. just think about this hearing today and all this argument about whether you re a good person or you re not. there s only really one opinion in this room right now that matters and it s mine. i think you are a good person and i think you re going to make it. for that reason, today the court is order that you serve 30 days in the lake county juvenile center and i m going to give you credit for the time you served, i m going to release you today and order you released to the custody of your mother. okay? your honor, may i hug miss bob- if they want to hug you, you can hug them. i m not going to make that request. you re going to be okay. thanks, bob. this is m