It had been a place that housed troubled youth. These were not just any youth, but young people that had serious mental disorders, such as depression, psychosis, mania, and schizophrenia. They had somehow wound up in the prison-industrial complex of New York State - only to have them claim through their lawyers that they were criminally insane, as their crimes were not their own fault but the fault of the people living inside their own heads, telling them what to do and how to feel, how to kill, or how to injure, m**m, and maul.I had been a part of that crowd in my younger years. I had parents who were abusive and friends who used to bully me, and when I struck back by lighting my family’s house on fire, this is where they shipped me.
They handcuffed me and sent me to this lively campus o
