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Personal Growth Cheong Pak Yin Ian, 4D (2016-2017)

Home sweet home! We were commanded to fold our clothes and make
our beds in the way the officer had taught us in five minutes. Then they
checked them carefully. Unfortunately, I didn’t fold the clothes carefully
enough and I had to fold them again under the watch of one of the officers.

An hour later, we got an hour of yard time. I had no interest in doing
exercise, so I sat on a bench nearby. I began to think about life in prison. In
prison, everything is done at the same time every day and the schedule is
fixed and we have no rights to do whatever we want. Moreover, we would
have to do the same things over and over again in prison every day so it
would be such a waste of life if we were sent to jail!

Finally, we were released from the prison! At that moment, I felt
relieved and I was glad that I was out of prison because I was no longer
under surveillance and my freedom was back!

I think that this scheme is very successful because it reminds
teenagers what the result of committing crimes is and lets us realise that
going to prison is the worst thing that could happen. Thus, we will think
more carefully before we decide to do anything that may violate the law.
Therefore, I am supportive of schools joining this scheme to prevent
teenagers from going down the wrong path and destroying their valuable
lives!

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