I was there in 87. The overage phasers stood out in my mind because they were treated better. Wendy who I think was getting off methadone maintenance, and a girl named Michelle or Danielle who turned out to be pregnant. It was my impression that Staff, and the group in general in terms of how people spoke to them, assumed they were telling the truth about things, whereas with underage phasers they assumed we were lying. I recall those two overage phasers when I was there, and vaguely recall, although I can't say for sure, that there might have been an underage phaser or two who stayed past their 18th birthday by choice. In that case I am thinking of a girl with dark hair named Melissa (not Melissa C. who was younger), and a medium tall girl with long straight brown hair, but I can't remember her name.
At one point in 1987 a twelve year-old girl was admitted. One girl was thirteen. I was seventeen and I recall that more phasers were younger than me than were my age or older.
When you post your recollections on this subject, please post what year(s) you were in there.
B.P.
