Posted by h2oforthegaslit Posted on: 07/20/07

When the System Abuses

Scandal Within the Alabama Department of Youth Services

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There had been rumors for years in the small town about the Chalkville Youth Campus and its bad girls court-ordered to stay there. It is a place for the misguided, the criminal, and the captured runaways who were underage girls placed in the state's care. The sprawling campus sits off the main road, behind a stone entryway, upon which is mounted a sign that clearly forbids access to the area unless having been granted permission beforehand.

Many a disobedient girl has been stirred to obey parents when told, "I'll put you in the girl's school if you don't straighten up!" The pictures that then pierced the mind entailed scenes of clanging cell doors, guards bearing rings of keys, and the long road back to the campus, darkened by the overhanging limbs of huge, Alabama oak trees. To a young girl, the large main building is mysterious and looms tall against a blue, southern sky, bearing likeness to an old, ominous castle hiding many years of secrets.

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