School Staff Very Good At Producing Young Men With Authority Issues

I just recently discovered that one of my dorm mates was gunned downed by police officers. Roger was a big guy from Houston Texas with a big heart and a very mild disposition. After I had left he got into some issues with staff and was sent to Mountain View, which in the final days of boys inhabiting the schools the boys who pissed off staff were housed at Hackberry.

Apparently Roger had escaped from Coffield unit and made it to Colorado where he was murdered, in what appears to me from the video, cold blood by local authorities. I’m certainly not condoning the acts Roger committed that took him from nice 15 year old kid seeking help from the state school in 1976 into this escaped mad man of 1988. However this graphic video highlights how incredibly well our old school was at turning relatively nice kids who came there in need of help into people who have issues with authority and in many cases are not fit to live in polite society. I don’t think any of us former students would be surprised how many of our school mates went on to prison or were murdered by authority’s. I say murdered because many graduates of gssb and tyc in general really never had a chance indifferent of the crimes they went on to commit. It was foolish for people in our home counties to think those monsters in gatesville could help a kid and the same holds true today for our state’s juvenile agency.

RIP Roger, when I knew you, you were a decent human being. A real shame what happened to all involved. It’s my opinion tyc is indirectly responsible for the mayhem in this video.