The Importance of Role Models in the Reformatory

When jereld's mom got in a car accident her family life turned upside down. Her job had been the family's main source of income and it was the depression they were in trouble. So if it's jereld started taking any work she could find At some point she ran numbers and she'd worked at a brothel keeping a lookout for cops Then one day the police picked her up for truancy and brought her before a judge who sentenced her to the training school up in hudson They checked her in one week before her birthday And it wasn't even public knowledge that she'd been there until nina bernstein that investigative reporter from the new york times Was interviewing