Rita Jane Many Guns- And Then Another Time

I went to the bathroom we were already in bed, I got caught for getting up and I had to kneel outside, outside the door. I don’t know how long, my knees were really hurting from kneeling down

Allan Stevens- We Snuck Away

We snuck away from school; the police were looking for us. We got caught and brought back to school. They strapped us continuously on our hands

Isabell Muldoe- There Were Many Rules

Of course, there were many rules. We learned from the others, or we learn by the mistakes that we made, while we were there, and we got punished.  I don’t know if the students that were there already, who knew the rules already, might have enjoyed watching us suffer being punished because we didn’t know the rules… but, we weren’t, the rules weren’t shared.

Isabell Muldoe- The Three-Day Train Ride

You know as well as I do that after three days, Bologna not sitting in a fridge turns green. That’s what was fed to us on a train, green bologna, and some of the children are hungry but I think that most, most of us probably ate just the peanut butter sandwich and got rid of the rest.