Rather, they are high school students in the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) program. LEDA is an independent nonprofit dedicated to developing the academic and leadership potential ...

Leda Hartman reports that the small town of ... Curtis Preudomme is 17 and served nine months in a juvenile reformatory for an armed robbery he was involved with when he was 13.

As a result, he gets a bloody ear from Red McCormack and a six-month sentence at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory with a dark past in which boys of all races often vanish forever.