I have good news and I have bad news...... Good news, my son called...They said it would take 4-6 weeks and it's been less than a week and he was able to call.
Bad news is as soon as he got there they had to put him in protective custody. The guard on purpose read his charge out loud in front of the prisoners in the room and walked out of the room and allowed 5 men to beat my son. He was there 24 hours. He arrives at Georgia Diagnostic Prison and this already happens? What the heck? I'm furious!! How can this not be cruelty and undeserving punishment and abuse of power by the guards? Georgia upsets me that they are putting young men in prison who are 18-19 years old who have sex with a girl 4 years and 2 months younger than them and pinning them as a Child molester. Not sex with a minor not nothing to that effect...but child molestation. there is something wrong here.... Georgia is already being investigated by the Federal government due to this same type of issue(s):
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/02/us/georgia-prisons-violence/index.html?iref=allsearch
The dorm he is in also has no Air conditioning and it's like 100 degrees in there.
I am not making light of what my son did... don't get me wrong but are you kidding me? He's going to have to put up with this kind of treatment because he made a mistake? How can guards get away with this crap??? Through this whole process I have lost such respect for the justice system that I can't stand it. My son can't be the only one there dealing this. I'm sick!! He will always be treated like a 30 year old man who molested a 4 year old child. Not a 18 year old kid who had sex with a 13 year old girl who was 7 days away from her 14th birthday.
I'm beside myself because underneath my son's surface he's a wimp....he was not raised on the streets, I moved away from detroit for that reason. He was raised in a small home town christian community. I don't know if he is going to make it. The only good thing was that in his evaluation and testing - he can be a teacher. They told him that he could get 6 months off his sentence by teaching people and helping them get their GED.
I'm just angry and upset and want to scream!
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