Notes

Watching a documentary: Real Time. Kids in a jail-slash-reform school. Three of them are in there for rape. One of them talks about coming into a woman's house and saying: "Can I have some pussy?" The woman says not in this room where my daughter is. Then they go into her room and he fucks her. That is what it was. It technically isn't rape, but it wasn't love or intercourse or anything as benign. After that he goes out and rapes her daughter. Another inmate raped chldren. He went in for an offense he commited when he was fifteen. And still there a boy who beat a girl in the head with hole bunch and then threw her on the floor and raped her.

But this is a school as much as a jail. What is the motivation behind the kindness and the mercy that makes this place work? The principal says: "When these people come out, they will be our neighbors. We will live next to these people. They need to know we're all in this together."

We need to know we're all in this together. When the interviewer ask Rasul if that old life was fun he says yes. There was nothing else to do but bad things. Coming home it's not fun to see cupboards bare, family hiding food.

When the interviewer asks what fun is now, Rasul answers: Life.