"imagine Holes but without the holes"

December 30, 2018 12:20 PM

When young men arrive at Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp—California’s first and only remaining rehabilitative prison camp for offenders sentenced as teens—they first notice the trees.
posted by queen anne's remorse (1 comment total)

It’s interesting that none of the three young men who were profiled managed to successfully rehabilitate (if you’re defining it strictly in the sense of remaining out of jail). They also seemed a little ambivalent about their experiences there. I appreciate that it complicates the simple narrative of ‘bucolic setting solves all’.

I also wonder if there’s a way to enhance Pine Grove’s rehabilitative effect, or a way to provide stronger post-incarceration support to these young men. The for-life mandated gang registry mentioned off-handedly in the article sounded tough to maneuver, for example.

Thanks for sharing, queen anne’s remorse!
posted by librarylis at 1:42 PM on December 31, 2018