I knew one fellow who killed a hooker. He worked as a farm-hand for my family. Spent twenty-odd years in Kingston, where he died. last time I saw him he bought my a chocolate milk and Hickory Stix, but he killed a hooker, just like Evans.
This incident embodies everything wrong with AARC. In AARC the inmates are encouraged to attack other inmates with impunity. The newcomers are objectified and turned into targets for all the rage that abused children harbor. Inmates are in fact rewarded for this behavior, as compliance with AARC results in speedier movement through the program.
AARCies are like returning vets from the Viet Nam war. Their psyches are destroyed by what they have seen and done, and thus they have massively high levels of crime and substance abuse.
AARC trots out their brain-wash victims to sell the program, but the AARC products who run amok have nothing to do with AARC?
Can't have it both ways.
I've known a lot of drug users in my day, but I never knew one who killed anybody. AARC's got about a one percent rate of graduates who are murderers. And so far, out of the '98-'02 cohort from the "study", Evans is charged with murder, Tilden is incarcerated, O'Flynn was sentenced to AARC, Mazur is dead. Since I just started looking into this in April, that doesn't seem to bear out AARC's claims to success.
As for Evans, if I were him I would get my lawyer to use time in AARC as a defense. Claim an automoton state induced by PTSD, caused by prolonged abuse in a con-artist's religious camp. By the way, what sort of AARC influence will be wielded here? My guess is that the Wizard shows up during sentencing.
