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...Norm has been going out to Walpole every week for over a year now. In October, after being kept back in school for three years, he moved into the 10th grade. His record has been clean for a number of months...
...gonna pay.' Before, I was just trying to impress people that I was some kind of big crook. I'd say, hey, I can't do anything without my boys. I gotta hustle. Now, I know that ain't nothing. I was just making my life shorter and shorter."--Norm, a 16-year-old participant in the Reach-Out Juvenile Counseling Program at Walpole...
...kids are at Walpole--and continue to come back week after week--needs explaining too. Norm, a 16-year-old black from a Roxbury housing project, is willing to do it. He leans back in the swivel chair, crossing his high-top sneakers on the prison guard's desk. The guard--Kevin Glynn--doesn't care. A rare exception among the guards, he's as much a part of Reach-Out as the inmates and kids...
...used to have trouble in school," Norm says. "I'd hook classes, run around, smoke herb and all that. I didn't known how to approach people with, you know, a big background. Every time I talked to them I came out with a loud-speaking voice." Now Norm says, "I know how to deal with it because people who know--they talk...
Many of the youths come from neighborhoods with racial tensions, which the program helps to ease. "I used to say 'white boy this, white boy that'--but that's the past." Norm says, after he and an inmate break up a fight between two kids before any punches are thrown. Mark, a white 15-year-old from Dorchester, is blunt in his attitude: "I don't like colored people," he declares, munching a Big Mac after the visit had ended. He admits, though, that "some of them out there are really nice." They were, he conceded, the first blacks...