'Drug Store' a taste of deadly reality for kids

From the Modesto Bee. HUGHSON — Detention had nothing on Lucas Fisher's day at school.

The eighth-grader at Ross Middle School spent 15 minutes Tuesday polishing the shoes of his trash-talking cellmate in a simulated juvenile hall cell on his school's lawn.

"I was feeling really scared," Lucas said after bolting from the cell. "I thought I was going to be here the whole day."

Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy Bret Silveira fixed a deadly stare on Lucas' classmates as he gave them a small taste of what they could expect behind bars.

"This is my house and these are my rules," Silveira barked at the students, a pair of stained, jail-issued underwear hanging from the bars. "Punks like you are gonna take care of me forever."

..."She started crying, I started crying. As soon as they put the handcuffs on her I just couldn't handle it."

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