More Than Their Crimes: Reforming Juvenile Justice in Washington State

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Incarcerated youth at the Green Hill School detention facility in Chehalis, WA discuss their personal paths to rehabilitation as they travel to the state capital for the signing of SB 6160, a juvenile justice reform bill they helped pass into law.

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@brendongoss8505 5 жыл бұрын

I was a resident in Green Hill School in chehalis Washington as a resident from June 2017 to june 2018. They been working on this since I was there. I remember all 4 of them and respect all of them. I was in the same housing as Joseph I'm really happy they were able to accomplish there one of there many goals to help juveniles in the future. Them 4 helped me through my sentence when I was in there. They helped me see life in A different way a much more positive way. Happy for them.

@dustinhamilton9857 3 жыл бұрын

Bro. Same here homie. I was locked up with you lol. But they were good people. Did a lot for that place

@87streetksta3 5 жыл бұрын

I applaud these young men and green hill school in general.i was there in 1990 when Bob Williams was superintendent and was sent to DOC as a juvenile with a juvenile charge because I was so out of control as a youth at Green hill school-So I know firsthand that sending youth to prison is not the answer.Education and a useable trade are 75% of the answer the other 25% is WANTING to do better and change.I am praying and rooting for these young men and I hope to see them 5 years from now free and living productive lives.God bless.

@crazyworld8939 2 жыл бұрын

Good to see people changing and bettering their life !

@robertanthony5519 2 ай бұрын

I been to green hill from 2010 into 2011 and I can say it helps the youth as long as you let it

@cynthiadavid5282 10 ай бұрын

Good video prayers to these kids

@cynthiadavid5282 9 ай бұрын

Alot of them want to go the right path and lot still go down the wrong path my heart goes out to all these kids they need love guidence job stability god

@wes5150. 2 жыл бұрын

WoW ! Finally... Progress ! I appreciate everyone's efforts to get this DONE !

@aaroncrepeau3296 4 жыл бұрын

This is what people need. An opportunity to better themselves otherwise people will just come out worse than how they went in.

@aaronsnideman6326 2 жыл бұрын

I worked at The Hill for a long time. I've met all these kids. Some made a difference, some didn't. Carmichael was my guy, my contract worker. He was a great young man that had a awesome head on his shoulders. I'm glad he made a difference in his life, and in many, many others as well.

@brennen3451 2 жыл бұрын

heh i work in the CK at Green hill.

@aaronsnideman6326 2 жыл бұрын

@@brennen3451 Really, I was a Cook 2 for a long time. What do you do in there?

@brennen3451 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaronsnideman6326 food service aid. You work with Jim? He's still here lol.

@aaronsnideman6326 2 жыл бұрын

@@brennen3451Nice, I was food aid, and Cook 1 on Jim's shift when I was on call. He was quiet but cool. I left in 2015 when things weren't the best. Is Trish, Donna, Kelly, or Clint still there?

@aaronsnideman6326 2 жыл бұрын

@@brennen3451 Are the hiring for anything? I kind of miss that place

@shericontrary2535 5 жыл бұрын

I worked at Green Hill from 2006 to 2015. There is no training for counselors. My job got dangerous when kids at the school stopped following staff directives to stand against the wall when a fight was happening at the school. Admin told residents that they didn't need to follow staff directives. Admin let a resident off room confinement after an escape attempt without consulting the counselor. She went over a counselor's head and let another resident out of orange after escaping and assaulting staff. I got fired out of retaliation for telling admin how sorry the place had become. Residents can assault staff with little or no consequences and a lot of good seasoned staff have left.

@josephhuntley569 3 жыл бұрын

As a resident who was in Green Hill, working in Security as their custodian, on the Youth Council and WA-PCJJ Subcommittee, and was apart of NEO with the Superintendent, and was one of the better behaved residents who had a lot of insight with the rules and regulations, I would say, at least durring my time at Green Hill (2017-2020) I would say that kind of protocol wasn’t ever a thing. Youth were, in most cases, appropriately held accountable. Administration, especially, never told us we didn’t have to follow directives. A guy got charged for tossing a grape at a staff, so I don’t even know what the “little to no consequence for assaulting staff thing was about” staff are given the discression not to press charges too by the way.

@shericontrary2535 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephhuntley569 Hopefully things got better after Marybeth left. I believe she is associated with antifa, along with Inslee

@Xemuth1337 2 жыл бұрын

@@shericontrary2535 cry about antifa

@stereostudd2026 Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@chrisrice2083 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful these 4 men was able to do this how cool

@rachaelannbadham2119 7 ай бұрын

I think we need to be careful with the bill of letting juvenile go before the sentencing time because we don't want the young kids do these crimes don't think they could commit a crime and few years they get out

@rutholiver2763 3 жыл бұрын

I wish when I was released I was taught More about the real world. Like credit, interest, loans rather than CBT and dbt and art. Bunch of bull. I went in a child and came out a child. They need to come up with better transition programs so when these kids get out they are not completely handicapped from reality and life outside of the gates. Programs that offer housing and jobs ect.ect.

@gassilva2185 2 жыл бұрын

Damm

@rutholiver2763 3 жыл бұрын

I will say that jra has made progress. When I was in there kids were getting stabbed and fights were a daily occurrence.

@PhilVerryChannel 3 жыл бұрын

This was good. I say, let them stay to deepen learning if fully participating or trying to emotio ally do so. Lots of bahgage to work on.

@nicholasmay9850 2 жыл бұрын

This is cool I was not Green Hill but I was incarcerated for two years at naselle youth camp

@crazyworld8939 2 жыл бұрын

Fair play to the American government with this one !!!

@oregon503wild6 4 жыл бұрын

I slumped garret in b wing spruce

@youngjames.2919 4 жыл бұрын

R.I.P Manny why was you in spruce that’s the sexoffender unit

@oregon503wild6 4 жыл бұрын

I was locked wit risky and 40

@oregon503wild6 4 жыл бұрын

YOUNG JAMES. This was in 2016

@mariahw7820 4 жыл бұрын

@@oregon503wild6 why you sleep that foo

@troyelliott390 2 жыл бұрын

✔

@DeliaNErik 2 жыл бұрын

I think a longest this boys don’t go back to old ways stick with God advice and move forward in a positive way

@coolasschris814 6 ай бұрын

16:17, How's that working out for Washington Jay?

@joycewright5386 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds trivial but how sad is it that these young men were never taught how to tie a tie by their fathers.

@hollyinhell Жыл бұрын

It's interesting that you mention that, the data supports fractured relationships with fathers or lacking a father role in general, increases the likelihood of incarceration for juvenile young men.

@yaboyblanco5611 Жыл бұрын

Most of them probably don't have father's in there lifes

@noahheath1043 2 жыл бұрын

Fuck this place ! FREE THE GUYS THO!

@Moe-ec2tp 3 жыл бұрын

@rutholiver2763 3 жыл бұрын

Trevor meredith these are children. Despite the things they have done they are still children. And you say things like this not understanding what really goes on in these places. Let's talk about the wards of the state. The children that are thrown in places like this not for crimes but simply because they have been rejected by the foster care system. That is right. When I was in there there were kids in there that didn't even commit a crime their behavior was simply too much for the foster care system to handle. Let's talk about the psychiatric drugs given to developing minds. Let's talk about how these drugs have mentally crippled children and effected their lives as adults. Let's talk about ptsd. Let's talk about children being fed through tray doors in a cell covered in feces and blood. This is the washington jra system. Or it used to be.

@TREVORMEREDITH 4 жыл бұрын

Watched it twice, anyone see any remorse on the part of these guys for the suffering of the victims? The ones that were shot? Screw them.

@josephhuntley569 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t speak for certain, but I do believe that all of us in that video do have remorse for our actions, but I also think you missed the point. That video is about our personal experiences within the justice system and JR, and how we’ve been able to become “more than our crimes” hence the name of the video. The point is that though we made mistakes, we can’t keep focusing on our past. The way I see it is we either go right back in the cycle of destruction, or to try to overcome our mistakes and give back where we have taken. By using that what we have learned and experienced, we’re givin the opportunity to make change in the system. Make it where youth who commit crimes have the best chance for treatment and rehabilitation. That doesn’t go without saying that there will be youth who never change. Youth who continue a life of evil and either end up in prison or dead. Nevertheless there isn’t any reason why the people who do want to change, can’t. As a Christian I believe anybody has the potential to change. No matter what the crime. You forget sir, nobody’s perfect, we all go through shit, and we are in fact just kids. Some of us just make worse mistakes than others.

@bmwnorthwestspreownedcente7121 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephhuntley569 my comments are directed to one of the characters in this video. I personally know one of his victims. I know the suffering he has caused and watched the indifference he and his family showed to the victims and the suffering they went through and will continue to go though. This pitiful attempt to reduce their sentences is just a chicken shit way of avoiding responsibility.