I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
I know prisons from the inside.
Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.'
What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.