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.

Some Thing’s Change But The Attitude of Staff Towards Inmates Remain The Same.

Much of our old school has become known as the Crain unit and even though some things change much of what is etched in our memories remain the same. Many of you who were there during the Morales v Turman lawsuit remember how troubled the staff was about being told they couldn’t beat state boys anymore. Well the thugs of gatesville got a reprieve when the boys were moved out and the state had tdc move in the ladies. A widely held suspicion was due to fear of developers digging up bodies of boys in unmarked graves. However the generational curse placed upon that backwoods town for its abuse of children was all set to continue on for the towns indigenous species through the abuse of the female inmates. After all people in a town whose existence was based on the blood of children, need a steady crop of helpless human beings to abuse to feel better about themselves in their own miserable lives. So the legacy of gatesville continues from the abuse of children and orphans to ladies and widows.

I remember the plumbing being an issue in the 70’s and today the ladies have to go to a “shower house” at the schools like Terrace. The old woodshop has been turned into a visitors area and they wrapped a fence around the schools. The buildings built in the 50’s and 60’s were of poor quality constructions and the place seems very dilapidated today. If it weren’t for the fear of what might be dug up around that place and the need to provide victims for the indigenous I’m sure our states leaders would like the horror story of our old sate school to be bulldozed away.

Gas for round trip to visit inmate at Christina Crain Unit $25.00
Quarters for vending machine to feed starved inmate $20.00
Lunch on the way home (Not in gatesville) $10.00
Look of sheer terror on various CO’s face when inquiring about a former state boy reunion to be held in town. Priceless!