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- I liked this picture because it is encouraging, and so different from youth incarceration.
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- Whenever a child staying in the Boys Town house goes to court, they have to put all of their belongings in a bag. This is because if their case is overturned or if they are sentenced, the child will return to quickly pick up their bag.
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- This is the weekday schedual for a kid living in Boys Town. Jim SaintGermain was giving us this tour. He had actually been detained here as a youth, but only for a few months at most. This is a temporary facility, that means that it is for kids who are waiting for their cases to be heard. Kids do not serve out their sentences in this building.
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- Menu for the week!
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- Blurry picture of the kitchen and beyond it is the dining room table. This Boys Town building is meant to house a maximum of 13 boys at once.
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- Half of the TV/living room space. This is where the kids spend most of their time.
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- Other half of the TV room.
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- One of the rooms where the boys stay.
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- A different room that the boys stay in. If you look above the head of the bed, there is a small white erase board. Its purpose is to give the boys something to write or draw on instead of using the walls to graffiti.
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- This is the backyard where the boys and staff play basketball when the weather is warm. Jim told us that the hoop is broken so they have not played in a while.
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- In the center of this rug was the man who started the Boys Town organization. Now the organization has buildings in America, Asia and South Africa.
