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If the teen dished out a beating to a misbehaving kid — someone who cursed at officers or defied their orders — he would be rewarded with In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.

When he was new at Central, he said, he cursed at an officer, who then told another kid to beat him up in return for some Jack in the Box.

“It was the Jack in the Box bacon double cheeseburger with the sourdough,” the teenager said.

If the teenager dished out a beating to a misbehaving kid — someone who cursed at officers or defied orders — he was rewarded with his pick from a fast-food smorgasbord of In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A, he said.

When we walked out of that appointment on a day that was so windy I had to hold onto my dress, I put Jack in the car, turned the radio on for him, closed the passenger door and walked about 30 feet away to scream in the parking lot.