Bree's Testimony
When I was first incarcerated, I was 14. Personally, I feel as though I shouldn’t have been arrested, but there was nothing I could do to stop it, because I did commit a crime. But they took me away from my home. My mom didn’t really have any idea what was going on until I was taken away. Coming home from being incarcerated, it kind of gave me a feeling of, you know, not feeling safe. I didn’t have an opportunity to be able to understand why everything happened. Nothing was explained to me. I felt as though I was taken away, and my family didn’t understand. and me coming back home, it was like well you I don’t want to do this anymore, I don’t take this chance, because it seemed like anything I did could lead to being arrested- I was arrested because of the tone of my voice- and that means that I can be arrested for anything and I don’t want to understand it because it was unfair in the consequences, I feel as though as youth no one, they should look at you know, law enforcement, everything like that as you know a go to, a safety, and a lot of times you fear them , and it shouldn’t be that way.
With that being the first time being arrested, there were some questions that were going through my head: you know like, how could the situation gone different for me? You know different steps that could have been taken, everything like that, not just even on my behalf, but on law enforcement, government behalf, and judges, and everything like that.
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