Throwaway People: Will Teens Sent to Die in Prison Get a Second Chance? http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=throwaway%20people%3A%20will%20teens%20sent%20to%20die%20in%20prison%20get%20a%20second%20chance%3F&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CHEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2F167812%2Fthrowaway-people-will-teens-sent-die-prison-get-second-chance&ei=x8qwT82fFtCKswa6hLzNBg&usg=AFQjCNHkbz2muIGgUzKY4epACDNKJYn6JQThe youngest of twelve kids, Trina was known as a slow child. She had a very low IQ and couldn’t read or write. Kids made fun of her for sucking her fingers. Her mother died when Trina was 9, and her father was a violent alcoholic capable of unthinkable cruelty. (Sworn affidavits describe, in addition to horrific abuse against his wife and kids, how he once beat the family dog to death with a hammer as Trina watched, then made his children clean up its remains.) From the time Trina was young, she was mostly cared for by her siblings: among them, Edith (or Edy), the eldest, who took over her mother’s responsibilities, and twin sisters Lynn and Linda, just a year older than Trina. In and out of homelessness, Trina and the twins slept in cars and abandoned buildings, washing their clothes in police stations and foraging for food wherever they could, including from trash cans.
