was surrounded by beech trees.
For doing this, I was incarcerated for a year
in an assessment center which was actually
a remand center. It was a virtual prison
for young people.
By the way, years later, my social worker said
that I should never have been put in there.
I wasn't charged for anything. I hadn't done anything wrong.
But because I had no family to inquire about me,
they could do anything to me.
I'm 17 years old, and
they had a padded cell.
They would march me down corridors in last-size order.
They -- I was put in a dormitory
with a confirmed Nazi sympathizer.
All of the staff were ex-police -- interesting --
and ex-probation officers.
The man who ran it was an ex-army officer.
Every time I had a visit by a person who I did not know
who would feed me grapes, once every three months,
I was strip-searched.