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Hi my name is Jerome Walker, I am a member of Young Adults Striving for Success A.K.A. YASS. I am here to speak about why YSC should be closed, it should be closed because it is not a place anyone should be: it’s inhumane. Its inhumane, some people have bumps from insects, people have to take cold showers four at a time, first day on automatic lock down, guards put you on lock down for no reason, last meal at 4pm so everyone is hungry all night, we got spoiled milk a lot, if people were allergic to food they didn’t eat. One day, while I was incarcerated at YSC I was in my cell bored so I decided to start sliding in my socks. It was fun because it was the only thing that kept me occupied. So I kept sliding so they came in the cell and asked for my socks. I gave them my socks so I sat down bored and then I started sliding on my pants. They were looking at me through the window and they opened the door and then one of the guards told me to take my pants off. I said no. So then they called for back-up, and then 2 more guards came and they told me to take my pants off again. I told them no, then one guard threw me on the bed and started choking me. I was trying to fight him off and the other two came, one punched me in my nose, while the other took off my pants. When they left, my nose was bleeding. I wiped it with a towel, and they came back and took the towel to keep the evidence. After I left YSC, I was fortunate to attend the Evening Reporting Center. During that time I was able to strive at the Evening Reporting Center. At the Evening Reporting Center they helped me with homework, we ate a good dinner, we had group, and then we did something fun. It kept me busy and off the streets. After my time at the Evening Reporting Center was done I kept going to the program. In New Orleans, we need to rethink how we treat young people and send them to alternatives like the ERC instead of sending them to youth jails.
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