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Published May 07, 2008 08:28 pm - This is a story of a 13-year-old boy, Thomas White of Joplin. He is now 15.

Voices: Unjust treatment



This is a story of a 13-year-old boy, Thomas White of Joplin. He is now 15.

He has been in solitary confinement for more than a year. No reading material, no schooling to advance his education, isolated from the world, only the guard who brings the food. We don’t do our animals this way.

Surely there is a better way to punish this child. After all, he is a human being. No access to anything, only four walls, a bed and toilet. Waiting for him to become an adult, then try him in an adult court, which is three years from now. He is not a beast of some kind, and he probably will go insane. He needs to be sent to a boys’ home until he reaches adulthood, then try him in court. Surely by then, he can prove he is a good citizen and just maybe he will be given a second chance. Surely someone will take him a Bible to read. God loves him as much as he loves us. This isolation is so unjust.

Marie Brown

Joplin



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