The School

We live in a cause-and-effect world. Every bit of human behavior comes from somewhere, has a reason, and serves a purpose, even when we dont understand it with our limited mortal intellect. Everyone learns his way of life. When people exhibit disturbing sex-related behavior, there are reasons. People can do the same overt act but for different reasons, different individual motivations. Sex offenders draw tremendous commercial interest, judging by daily newspaper stories, weekly TV shows, and Hollywood movies. They are scorned, shamed, and mocked more than given the diagnosis and treatment that they need and deserve as human beings to help them live regular, satisfying lives. Not one of them ever wanted to be a sex offender. Here is the story of the last three years of one of Americas most successful sex offender schools experienced by Matt Granger as he did his best to self-improve from disgusting and perplexing misbehavior.
About the Author: Marine Corps Sergeant R. Warren Schuenemann received the Purple Heart and medals for valor in Vietnam. Graduating summa cum laude from the University of Houston he worked as a licensed plumber in two states and with a Secret Security clearance on military bases. His marriage solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple produced one son. The American Correctional Association published an article of his on sex offender treatment in a criminal justice textbook. Twice put in prison, Warren first received a ninety-nine-year sentence for burglary from a Dallas jury, overturned by the Texas Supreme Court due to prosecutor misconduct. After seeing the states antics, the witness refused to testify again and told prosecutors to go to hell. Warren, however, spent eight years in the Department of Corrections without rehabilitation or a diagnosis of his behavior problems. The second incarceration: a police chief promised on videotape emphasis on reformation and named the state school doctors. Relying on promises, Warren pled no contest to everything prosecutors filed. The judge labelled him a career criminal and worst offender although he did not come up to average offender criteria. There was not so much as a scratch or a dirty word. The judge made up a state record sixty-nine-year sentence, cute in media headlines for a sex offender. Appeal judges ignored his exceptional rehabilitation potential, major mental illness, and post-traumatic stress disorder, not just from Vietnam, but from severe childhood abuse, as they focused on the type of crime. The case and videotape went all the way to the US Supreme Court. After twenty-six years in prison from 1987 to 2013, Warren came up for parole. The Board in the hearing said that all he had to do was retake the sex offender school which he had graduated from in June 1992, twenty-one years earlier. Its on audiotape. Three hours later a smirking parole officer handed him the Boards ten-year sentence extension. He is scheduled to see the Board next in 2023 when he is seventy-three years old.