Rehab Vision: Sharpening Minds and Skills

Boys Town’s Rehab Vision Remains, Now Sharpening Minds and Skills

By BRET SCHULTE JAN. 18, 2015
The New York Times

BOYS TOWN, Neb. — Juan Lopez, 17, lives in this home for wayward and neglected youths because he “got in trouble back in school, skipping and taking drugs.”

Here he got the nickname Guns, because of a sudden affinity for carrying a piece — it shoots roofing nails.

Now sober and close to graduation from Boys Town High School, Juan wants to be a roofer. “Construction feels like you’ve accomplished something,” he said. And he just plain likes shooting a nail gun.

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