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Camp Green Lake Research Paper

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Digging 5 by 5 foot diameter holes in the hot blazing sun, where the temperature is around 95 degrees. There is no shade around, nowhere to go cool off. Always on the lookout for animals that could kill you with one single bite. The overall nature of this place is horrible. Juvenile detention Centres are set up to inforce law and order to adolescents who have been convicted of a felony. Juveniles at a camp are compelled to follow the given rules without question. Detention camps are meant to do good to a troubled adolescent but not all are as they seem. Camp Green Lake is a juvenile detention camp in Calhoun Country, Texas. The juveniles are put to work to dig 5 by 5 foot diameter holes. The landlord states that digging will help build character but is that actually why they are digging? Digging such a big hole in such hot and humid heat would require one to have a lot of physical and mental strength. Even though digging such large holes every day would help the adolescents to gain more physical and mental strength, it’s not the real reason the camp was opened. The Landlord articulates that the camp is to help build character within the adolescents but it was just a cover to hide the fact that the camp is run for her own personal benefit. The juveniles weren't …show more content…

Their daily schedule consisted of breakfast at 4:30am, sent out into the dried up lake to dig a 5 by 5 foot diameter hole, rest than dinner. However the meals weren’t pleasant, they were described as disgusting and distasteful. After the long day they would go to a somewhat of a bed to sleep. There was nothing to impart the adolescents of how to act in a respectable manner, meaning they didn't receive any education, except how to dig a hole. In other words there was nothing to help the adolescents when they venture back into society. It all comes down to the landlord and the

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