Detained and Confused: A Jonesboro shooter writes to a friend

A Jonesboro shooter writes to a friend

Juvenile detention center isn't all bad, says Mitchell Johnson, one of the two boys in jail for the Jonesboro, Ark., shootings that killed five people in March 1998. He gets to watch Jerry Springer, eat fast food, use the gym one night a week and listen to his favorite rap song, Shoot 'Em Up, by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Still, the realities of life in confinement are beginning to dawn on Johnson, who turns 15 this week. "I will never go to a prom. I won't have sex or kiss for seven years, almost eight," he wrote in a letter to ex-schoolmate Colby...

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