A Way to Get My Life Straight
Roy Holley, a young Western Youth Institution inmate, reflects on his path to a 25 year sentence after moving from Missouri to Gastonia in 1994. He describes daily routines, loneliness, GED efforts, and hopes for parole while staff emphasize family impact and program aims.
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Morganton
Roy Holley
Western Youth Institution
Holley
Missouri
Gastonia
Western
Bob Smith
Smith
Court aims rehabilitation before detention for juveniles
In Gaston County officials emphasize home and community options over training centers. Probation includes curfews and school attendance, with escalation to intensive probation and two counselors. If sent to a center in Concord, teens face defined or indefinite sentences, classrooms, counseling, and a points system toward possible release once level four is reached.
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Gastonia
Kearney
Rose Medical Center
Denver
Wall
Ken Cohen
Lutheran Medical Center
Cohen
World Health Organization
Juvenile program helps parents curb youth behavior in court
In Gaston County a program IMPAC Interactive Medium for Parents and Children aims to improve parenting skills. Since 1994, 35 families have participated. now two are enrolled as executive director Dewey Matherly notes parents must attend sessions on substance abuse adolescent development and schooling while judge Harley Gaston observes a rise in defiance and fewer remorseful youths.
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Dewey Matherly
Matherly
Gaston County
Harley Gaston
Burger Supreme Court Chief Justice Dies at 87
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who led the court during pivotal rulings on school desegregation busing, access to courts, and women’s protections, died after years of pulmonary illness and hospitalizations. He presided over the 1987 Bicentennial celebrations and the 1989 Bill of Rights anniversary.
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Burger
War Veteran Recounts Fierce Fighting at Ipo Dam
Parker recalls three months of hill battles under 100 degree heat as bombs poisoned streams and two man foxholes protected troops at night. He describes knee mortars, 16 inch cannons, and a morning when a man ran into a rice paddy shouting the war was over.
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Parker
Ipo
Japan
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Gaston Gazette
la Toya Hawkins Gazette
Marilyn Hamilton
Gary Kearney
N.C
Division of Youth Service
Concord
Gaston County Family Services
Gaston
Warren
William Rogers
Nixon
Eisenhower
Boston University
School of Medicine
Harvard University
George Hacker
Alcohol Policies Project
Center For Science In the Public Interest
Thetional Institute of Alcohol Abuse
Dub Parker
Dallas
Philippines
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