A10 The BulleTin • Monday, June 14, 2021
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TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
66°
LOW
47°
Mostly cloudy and cooler
Partly cloudy
65°
43°
74°
49°
Variable clouds, a shower
in the afternoon
Pleasant and warmer with
plenty of sun
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
90°
71° 92° in 1933
54°
41° 26° in 1976
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.69" in 2006
Month to date (normal)
0.37" (0.37")
Year to date (normal)
2.52" (5.39")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.82"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Tue.
Sun
5:22am/8:50pm 5:22am/8:50pm
Moon
9:03am/none 10:10am/12:24am
Mercury 5:21am/8:04pm 5:16am/7:58pm
Venus
6:52am/10:23pm 6:54am/10:24pm
Mars
8:19am/11:21pm 8:19am/11:19pm
Jupiter 12:33am/11:08am 12:29am/11:04am
Saturn 11:44pm/9:29am 11:40pm/9:25am
Uranus
3:10am/5:21pm 3:06am/5:17pm
First
Full
Last
New
Jun 17
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 9
Tonight's sky: Today, the sun rises earliest at
5:21 a.m. PDT and sets at 9:01 p.m. PDT.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
2
4
4
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Grasses
High
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
82°
55°
EAST: Sunshine mixed
with a few clouds
Monday. Clear to
partly cloudy Monday
night.
86°
54°
Warm with plenty of
sunshine
Mostly sunny and very
warm
Astoria
66/52
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47583
86%
Wickiup
52562
26%
Crescent Lake
24947
29%
Ochoco Reservoir
8760
20%
Prineville
74027
50%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
113
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1240
Deschutes R. below Bend
126
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1560
Little Deschutes near La Pine
92
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
2
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
275
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
49
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
10
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
Israeli epoch comes to a close
Lawmakers vote out
Netanyahu, country’s
longest-serving leader
BY LAURA KING
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — In an
era-ending vote, Israeli law-
makers on Sunday approved
a new government, sweep-
ing aside the country’s lon-
gest-serving leader, Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu, and
installing a fellow right-wing
nationalist, Naftali Bennett, as
the country’s new leader.
The narrow vote by the
120-member Knesset, or par-
liament, ushered in a ruling
coalition that was cobbled to-
gether from wildly disparate
political parties with little in
common beyond a shared de-
sire to expel Netanyahu from
the office he had held for the
last 12 years.
Bennett, the new prime min-
ister, heads a small party de-
termined to thwart Palestinian
statehood and maintain Israeli
control over most of the occu-
pied West Bank. But his gov-
ernment includes parties from
Israel’s left and center, and also
marks a historic first: participa-
tion in the ruling coalition by
an Islamist party representing
Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Because of fundamental dis-
agreements over the potential
creation of a Palestinian state
alongside the Israeli one, the
government is likely to try in-
stead to concentrate on domes-
tic issues, including passing a
national budget and embarking
on an economic recovery from
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bennett is taking the top
spot as part of an unusual
agreement with the head of
the coalition, centrist politi-
cian Yair Lapid, who would
normally have assumed the
country’s leadership. In order
to woo Bennett into his camp,
Lapid offered to split the four-
year term as prime minister in
half, with Bennett going first.
Lapid will serve now as the for-
eign minister.
Netanyahu, who is on trial
Ariel Schalit/AP photos
Israeli protesters dance and cheer during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
outside his official residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night. Israel swore in a new government Sunday, end-
ing Netanyahu’s record 12-year rule.
Naftali Bennett, shown speaking
Sunday in a session of parliament,
is an Orthodox Jew who has been
called Israel’s first religious prime
minister.
for corruption, first became
prime minister for three years
in the 1990s and had held the
top office again since 2009.
That has made him the lon-
gest-serving Israeli leader, sur-
passing the longevity even of
the country’s first prime min-
ister and primary founder, Da-
vid Ben Gurion.
In recent years, many Israe-
lis had become alarmed by an
accelerating slide into autoc-
racy by Netanyahu, who has
denounced criminal court pro-
ceedings against him as a witch
Plenty of sunshine
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
96/73/0.00
Akron
85/68/0.03
Albany
79/58/0.00
Albuquerque
100/73/0.00
Anchorage
60/51/0.00
Atlanta
89/71/0.00
Atlantic City
77/64/0.00
Austin
96/72/0.00
Baltimore
81/64/0.01
Billings
92/57/0.00
Birmingham
93/69/0.00
Bismarck
87/57/0.00
Boise
98/64/0.00
Boston
85/62/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 78/57/0.00
Buffalo
84/64/0.03
Burlington, VT
86/54/0.00
Caribou, ME
74/44/0.00
Charleston, SC 80/71/1.34
Charlotte
84/69/0.00
Chattanooga
94/67/0.03
Cheyenne
87/58/0.00
Chicago
87/66/0.00
Cincinnati
90/70/Tr
Cleveland
80/66/0.08
Colorado Springs 87/60/Tr
Columbia, MO
91/66/0.00
Columbia, SC
85/72/0.05
Columbus, GA
92/71/0.00
Columbus, OH
91/70/0.00
Concord, NH
84/49/0.00
Corpus Christi
95/72/0.00
Dallas
99/76/0.00
Dayton
89/69/0.00
Denver
93/61/0.00
Des Moines
93/60/0.00
Detroit
84/69/0.00
Duluth
79/53/Tr
El Paso
103/77/0.00
Fairbanks
74/55/0.04
Fargo
85/59/0.00
Flagstaff
89/37/0.00
Grand Rapids
86/65/0.00
Green Bay
88/59/0.00
Greensboro
82/67/0.00
Harrisburg
79/68/0.00
Hartford, CT
83/57/0.00
Helena
95/50/0.00
Honolulu
86/74/0.05
Houston
99/81/0.00
Huntsville
93/67/0.00
Indianapolis
88/70/0.03
Jackson, MS
97/75/0.09
Jacksonville
89/71/0.99
Today
Hi/Lo/W
94/72/pc
78/59/t
67/57/t
100/71/s
64/50/s
91/72/t
73/66/t
96/74/pc
86/65/t
100/62/s
93/70/t
89/59/s
95/63/s
72/64/sh
69/64/t
71/57/t
72/61/r
71/55/sh
86/73/t
91/67/t
94/71/s
91/58/pc
82/62/s
87/59/s
75/60/t
92/64/pc
94/67/s
92/70/t
93/70/t
85/59/t
68/58/r
95/74/s
95/75/pc
85/59/s
98/65/s
87/64/s
77/59/t
80/55/pc
103/74/s
82/58/pc
85/54/s
92/52/s
79/54/pc
80/56/pc
89/67/t
84/63/t
68/60/r
100/60/s
86/73/s
96/76/t
91/69/s
86/59/s
93/72/t
83/72/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
77/59/s
77/61/t
63/57/sh
110/80/pc
92/81/t
77/70/t
80/71/s
78/59/pc
65/49/r
74/52/pc
63/45/c
85/75/pc
89/68/s
86/57/c
85/79/t
64/46/pc
60/45/sh
84/61/pc
74/46/s
90/83/t
69/60/r
77/67/s
67/45/s
68/64/s
81/61/pc
82/59/pc
93/65/pc
90/82/t
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
95/70/s
74/52/t
72/52/pc
96/70/pc
64/51/s
89/66/pc
77/64/c
94/71/t
80/60/pc
104/63/s
89/63/pc
92/68/s
89/53/s
76/62/pc
78/62/pc
73/51/t
72/52/sh
69/49/r
91/70/t
88/64/s
88/63/s
94/62/pc
78/58/s
79/59/pc
73/54/pc
94/66/s
89/65/s
91/66/s
93/66/t
78/51/pc
75/52/pc
92/75/pc
96/74/s
79/55/pc
99/67/s
89/64/s
76/52/pc
73/50/s
100/74/s
84/59/pc
85/62/s
92/54/pc
77/49/pc
75/50/pc
85/62/s
79/59/pc
79/57/pc
93/55/s
87/74/s
95/76/t
86/61/pc
80/57/pc
94/71/pc
91/72/t
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
67/48/0.00
91/48/0.00
86/66/0.16
108/75/0.00
88/66/0.34
91/56/Tr
94/78/0.00
84/62/0.00
94/74/0.00
88/54/0.00
94/78/0.01
94/78/Tr
86/65/0.00
97/63/0.00
96/72/0.00
97/79/0.44
76/62/0.01
78/59/Tr
78/68/0.00
92/75/0.06
94/58/0.00
88/75/0.32
112/77/Tr
89/66/0.00
79/63/0.00
113/80/0.00
87/66/0.43
84/51/0.00
82/57/0.00
85/66/Tr
87/58/0.00
93/56/0.00
84/64/0.00
86/57/Tr
88/61/0.00
93/73/0.00
102/61/0.00
95/75/0.00
75/64/0.00
77/61/0.00
78/62/0.00
98/68/0.00
83/70/0.12
64/57/0.81
93/59/0.00
89/61/0.00
87/66/0.00
92/82/Tr
112/74/0.00
93/73/0.00
82/67/Tr
89/69/0.00
89/64/0.00
112/77/0.00
Today
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
63/51/c
61/51/sh
93/69/pc
92/70/s
76/55/pc 76/47/pc
110/84/s 113/88/pc
86/58/s
77/56/s
95/66/pc
93/67/s
93/70/s
92/71/s
91/72/s
99/72/pc
91/63/s
83/63/s
83/56/s
79/50/s
93/73/s
89/68/s
85/77/t
89/79/t
78/60/s
72/56/pc
87/63/s
83/61/s
92/66/s
85/61/s
94/78/t
93/78/t
70/65/t
79/63/pc
74/66/t
82/64/pc
86/73/t
83/67/t
92/67/c
93/69/s
94/67/pc
93/69/s
87/74/t
88/75/t
113/84/s 118/86/pc
86/60/s
85/56/s
80/65/t
80/63/pc
115/86/s 117/88/s
78/57/t
73/50/t
68/59/sh
73/57/c
70/63/sh 77/60/pc
89/69/t
87/64/pc
90/63/s
97/69/s
86/56/s
89/56/s
87/68/t
84/62/pc
74/56/t
75/50/t
84/54/s
90/61/s
94/67/s
89/68/s
104/75/s 104/69/s
95/76/pc
93/73/t
77/65/pc 80/66/pc
72/57/pc
74/56/s
75/55/pc
79/55/s
98/63/s
92/61/t
88/72/t
94/70/t
69/54/c
66/51/r
90/60/pc
92/64/s
83/56/s
69/47/sh
90/66/pc
89/67/s
89/79/t
88/81/t
111/79/s 111/77/pc
94/68/s
95/71/s
86/67/t
81/63/pc
93/66/pc
94/70/s
76/54/pc 74/47/pc
109/76/s 114/77/s
112/89/0.00
73/55/0.37
82/59/0.00
75/57/0.00
76/51/0.00
88/79/0.47
91/77/0.11
80/72/0.44
66/48/0.00
82/54/0.05
79/59/0.00
73/66/0.43
81/63/0.00
64/36/0.00
64/54/0.00
79/61/0.00
85/66/0.00
81/75/0.24
88/74/0.04
66/50/0.00
69/50/0.00
93/81/0.00
84/74/0.00
79/68/0.21
81/66/0.02
64/57/0.48
72/61/0.00
63/52/0.08
110/81/pc
64/54/t
73/61/t
80/60/pc
76/53/s
87/78/t
95/80/pc
83/70/pc
63/48/r
75/58/r
86/62/s
73/63/pc
82/65/s
72/43/pc
69/51/s
68/55/pc
86/68/pc
86/77/t
89/79/sh
72/50/sh
64/48/pc
99/82/pc
82/76/s
80/70/sh
71/59/sh
65/54/pc
72/49/s
73/51/s
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 114°
at Needles, CA
National low: 30°
at Bodie State Park, CA
Precipitation: 2.23"
at Brookings, OR
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Remaining warm with
plenty of sunshine
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
62/58/0.84 66/52/pc 63/49/sh
La Grande
98/56/0.00 86/55/s 67/44/c
Portland
68/62/0.99 72/56/c 69/51/sh
Baker City
94/46/0.00 87/53/s 73/40/s
La Pine
82/41/0.00 66/46/pc 62/38/c
Prineville
86/46/0.00 72/46/pc 62/42/c
Brookings
61/55/2.23 61/51/c 63/51/pc
Medford
84/60/0.00 75/54/pc 75/50/s
Redmond
89/51/0.00 69/47/c 68/39/c
Burns
94/44/0.00 84/47/s 77/41/s
Newport
59/55/1.19 62/52/pc 60/47/sh
Roseburg
68/63/0.13 76/53/c 72/50/pc
Eugene
66/62/1.24 73/51/c 70/46/c
North Bend
63/59/2.11 67/54/pc 65/51/pc
Salem
68/63/1.25 73/52/c 70/48/sh
Klamath Falls
81/45/0.02 73/43/pc 70/39/s
Ontario
97/57/0.00 96/64/s 90/56/s
Sisters
83/54/0.00 65/46/c 65/42/c
Lakeview
85/39/0.00 76/45/s 74/42/s
Pendleton
91/54/Tr
84/57/s 71/47/c
The Dalles
87/66/Tr
76/57/c 75/50/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
81°
48°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
87/59
Rufus
Hermiston
73/54
87/59
77/59
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
79/61
72/48 72/56
85/53
Wasco
90/54 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Clouds and Tillamook
88/54
72/56
84/57
Sandy
76/57
McMinnville
67/52
a few breaks of sun
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
70/53
Maupin
Government
73/48
Monday with a shower
86/55
89/54
Camp
73/54 Condon 78/54
Union
Lincoln City
in spots. A spotty
69/52
59/46
87/56
Salem
62/53
Spray
shower Monday night.
Granite
Warm Springs
73/52
Madras
83/54
Albany
80/49
Newport
Baker City
67/49
69/48
Mitchell
62/52
71/49
87/53
WEST: More clouds
Camp Sherman
75/49
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
than sun Monday with Yachats
64/46
69/47
69/50
Day
Prineville
61/52
85/51
a few showers. Re-
Ontario
Sisters
72/46
Paulina
86/52
96/64
maining mostly cloudy Florence
Eugene 65/46
Bend Brothers 79/47
Vale
with a spotty shower
63/54
73/51
66/47
74/44
Sunriver
97/65
early Monday night.
Nyssa
66/45
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
97/65
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
66/46
77/46
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
91/56
69/50
74/50
Fort
Rock
66/52
84/47
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
75/47
83/47
High: 98°
66/45
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at La Grande
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
63/53
76/53
78/47
88/54
Low: 39°
Marsh
Lake
85/50
Port Orford
68/44
76/45
at Lakeview
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
63/54
Pass
91/60
Chiloquin
77/45
79/51
Rome
Medford
69/43
Gold Beach
75/54
93/62
60/50
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
88/52
69/51
73/43
88/51
61/51
76/45
Seaside
68/51
Cannon Beach
66/52
SUNDAY
84°
52°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
SATURDAY
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
WEDNESDAY
hunt and has tirelessly sought
to undermine the legitimacy of
judges, prosecutors and inves-
tigators.
Had he remained in office,
Netanyahu had signaled he
would use the prime minister’s
post as a platform to continue
attacking the judiciary and
probably would have tried to
engineer some form of immu-
nity from the fraud and brib-
ery charges he is facing. Rivals
also feared he would intensify
his wielding of state powers in
ways that would make it diffi-
cult for anyone to challenge his
actions in office or hold him
accountable.
Along with his detractors,
however, Netanyahu has main-
tained a devoted following
whose fervor at times has bor-
dered on obsession. Over the
last two weeks, as it became ap-
parent his grip on power was
in serious jeopardy, his allies
mounted a campaign of furious
incitement against the new co-
alition, characterizing Bennett,
who once served as his chief of
staff, and other right-wing stal-
warts as traitors to the prime
minister’s ideological cause.
So heated did the discourse
become that the head of Isra-
el’s domestic security agency,
the Shin Bet, issued an unusual
warning about the dangers of
hate speech, and some main-
stream commentators ex-
pressed fears of an uprising on
the order of the Jan. 6 insurrec-
tion at the U.S. Capitol.
Netanyahu did little to calm
the rhetorical storm, but his Li-
kud Party did promise a peace-
ful transfer of power.
Hours before the vote ap-
proving the new government,
Netanyahu used his last speech
to the Knesset as prime minis-
ter to unleash a bitter tirade at
not only the rivals who ousted
him, but at the Biden admin-
istration.
“An Israeli prime minister
needs to be able to say ‘no’ to
the leader of the world’s super-
power,” he declared from the
well of the Knesset, referring
to his own vehement opposi-
tion to U.S. efforts to revive the
landmark nuclear accord with
Iran that was scrapped by Pres-
ident Donald Trump.
Netanyahu, now the leader
of the opposition in the Knes-
set, is expected to remain a for-
midable political force.
73/48/0.00
84/63/0.05
61/51/0.10
104/78/0.00
90/80/0.20
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He killed his parents the
next day, and the day after that
he opened fire in the school
cafeteria, killing 16-year-old
Ben Walker and 17-year-old
Mikael Nickolauson and in-
juring 25 before being sub-
dued by other students.
He pleaded guilty — at
the time, he did not want to
accept his diagnosis and felt
community pressure to re-
solve the case rather than
plead not guilty by reason of
insanity. He was sentenced to
nearly 112 years after apolo-
gizing profusely.
“I feel tremendous, tre-
mendous shame and guilt for
what I did,” he told HuffPost.
“I hate the violence that I’m
guilty of.”
Kinkel shot Betina Lynn
in the back and foot. She told
HuffPost the idea of him ever
getting out is “literally terrify-
ing.” She has perma-
nent nerve damage,
a constant reminder
of what happened.
“Even now, more
than 23 years later, I
and many other sur-
vivors are still deal-
ing with the fallout,” Kinkel
Lynn said. “We are
all serving life sentences right
alongside him.”
Kinkel described how he
underwent mental health
treatment at the youth prison
where he began his sentence
and recognized he harmed
innocent people, including
his parents, whom he loved.
He also said he cried when
he learned about the 1999
massacre at Columbine High
School in Colorado, afraid
that he had inspired it.
Fighting the sentence
Kinkel, who has obtained
a college degree behind bars,
continues to challenge his
sentence, which was upheld
by the state Supreme Court.
In March, his attorneys filed
a petition in federal court,
arguing that his plea was not
voluntary — he had been off
his meds for several weeks be-
forehand — and that his sen-
tence was unconstitutional.
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die in prison because they
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“Even now, more than 23
years later, I and many
other survivors are still
dealing with the fallout. We
are all serving life sentences
right alongside him.”
— Betina Lynn, who was shot
in the back and foot
suffer from a mental illness
is a violation of the Eighth
Amendment,” his lawyers
wrote.
In 2019, as part of a na-
tional effort to re-evaluate
tough-on-crime sentences for
juveniles, the Oregon Leg-
islature passed a measure to
stop automatically referring
15- to 17-year-olds to adult
court for certain offenses and
to ensure that they weren’t
sentenced to life in prison
without a chance to seek pa-
role. At the time, there were
about a dozen peo-
ple serving life or
life-equivalent terms
for crimes commit-
ted as juveniles.
But critics warned
that the measure
could lead to Kin-
kel’s release, and a
month later, law-
makers passed another bill to
make clear that the measure
was not retroactive.
“It doesn’t matter if he
was 15,” Adam Walker, the
brother of Kinkel’s victim
Ben Walker, said in a video
released at the time. “The
victims don’t get second
chances. Why should the of-
fenders?”
Kinkel said he watched the
debate in the prison library.
“It was like, there was
hope,” Kinkel said. “And then
the Legislature ... came back
and said, ‘No, we are specifi-
cally, intentionally, purposely
with everything that we have,
going to take this away from
the kids already in the sys-
tem.’”
He said he doesn’t often
consider the possibility of
ever being released: “I don’t
allow myself to spend too
much time thinking about
that because I think that can
actually bring more suffer-
ing.”