Lockdown Chapter 9 Summary

  • Karen Williams is visiting the inmates to tell them about exit strategies. Step one is getting a GED.
  • Diego says that potential employers don't respect GEDs because they're not regular high school diplomas.
  • When Miss William says potential employers can't ask about your arrest record, Play points out that's just not how it works in the real world.
  • The sense that Reese has from all of this is that he and the other inmates don't belong in the outside world.
  • Reese's mom left some papers for him to sign. Mr. Cintron told him that the program offers money, so Reese knows that's what his mom is after. He wishes he could depend on her, but he knows he can't.
  • Reese goes to the dentist. He mentions that Diego is on some heavy meds. Wonder what they are?