I worked with Human Rights Watch: Student Task Force, and one of our big projects was juvenile detention. Solitary confinement (under a host of more "humane" names) came up, and one of the most depressing things about it was that many, if not most, of the juvie inmates in solitary didn't really need it; they were only in there because the prisons didn't have enough resources to handle them. D:
I really love the bleak environment you created, and Neal's sense of hopelessness as well as time passing. The idea of him having to make do for life with two books and crayons is heart breaking, and also left me wondering what happened and where everyone is and why they're leaving him (or, alternatively, as is entirely likely in the American prison something, if they are being denied Neal/lied to about him, and again, why?).
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:50 pm (UTC)I really love the bleak environment you created, and Neal's sense of hopelessness as well as time passing. The idea of him having to make do for life with two books and crayons is heart breaking, and also left me wondering what happened and where everyone is and why they're leaving him (or, alternatively, as is entirely likely in the American prison something, if they are being denied Neal/lied to about him, and again, why?).
Excellent fic. :)