slippery slope
He was a good kid in high school. Really into sports. Mostly soccer.
When he graduated, he started hanging with a different crowd. “My brother told me, you better watch out. You gotta change who you’re hanging out with.”
He didn’t really realize it but he was in it. The drug dealing.
It’s not an uncommon story I hear from many of my patients.
He said, when you’re in it, you don’t really see the signs. But others around you are trying to warn you because they can see it clearly from the outside looking in.
Finally able to get an apartment, a car. Able to buy clothes. And always buying his mom something and making sure she was taken care of. She also told him to be careful.
“I thought I was flying under the radar. Little did I know there were eyes everywhere.” And suddenly, it was all taken away.
“And now, I’m in here. All of it gone. Except the car….my brother managed to get it under his name before it was seized.”
He wants to pay attention to what’s important now.
He’s working in the media center, learning how to do newspaper layouts. These are things he never would have even thought about doing on the outside. But he’s getting the chance now to learn something new. And he says the instructor is really teaching and cares about teaching them.
The guys that work in the media center have a 0% recidivism rate. I’m thrilled to hear he’s on their team.
A hard lesson learned…..
**just to note, I’ll be leaving out the name of the institution that I work at. It’s a state prison for reference. Images are not from the prison as no devices are allowed in.
Prison PT 
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