Mom helps son blog - from jailNext thing you know, he'll be tweeting. But for now, he's just blogging. A sample:
"If I haven't said it already, jail sucks," Kelly Shannon Kelly read from a letter written by her 20-year-old son Theodore Braden, an inmate in the Pinellas County jail.
The little boy she had such high hopes for now sits in the Pinellas County Jail facing charges for trafficking MDMA (Ecstasy), reports
10 Connects.The little boy she had such high hopes for now sits in the Pinellas County Jail facing charges for trafficking MDMA (Ecstasy), reports
Braden has been in and out of trouble since the age of 13. While his mother tried to explain to him things would be different after he became an adult at 18, he didn't learn.
As a kid, his jail stints were a couple of days.
His stay this time around has exceeded one year. And he turned 20 in jail.
His blog Teen in Jail was born.
He gets a helping hand from his mom.
Since Braden doesn't have access to the internet in jail, he writes letters to her which she then posts on his blog. If he can't get a letter, his mother takes notes during her weekly visits.
"They only see sun for two hours a day," she read from a well worn notebook.
Braden and his mother say they'll keep on blogging, even after he's served his debt to society.
For now, he says he's ready to pay the final consequences for the decisions he's made. But once he's served his time, he says he'll never be back.
"I know people have probably heard this a hundred times,'' he says. "But if you can't do the time, don't do the crime."
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