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Losing Josh

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NHPR

Documentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4803 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Emily loses Josh (twice) and Josh walks a tightrope between prison and poverty.

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0:00.0

The last time I saw Josh was at the hospital.

0:05.0

I was nervous for him after those seizures.

0:08.0

I just, I'm worried about this guy.

0:11.0

And I'd forgotten to figure out how to reach him.

0:15.0

I don't know.

0:18.0

I don't even know how I'm going to follow up with Josh. Like I didn't even, he doesn't even have a phone number.

0:28.9

There is one person I hope will be able to help me find Josh.

0:33.7

Someone whose actual job it is to keep track of him.

0:37.8

My name is Greg Morginous, and I'm a probation parole officer for the state of New Hampshire,

0:42.6

and Josh is one of my parole subjects.

0:45.9

Out of how many?

0:47.7

Right now I have about 140 people who are on either probation or parole.

0:55.0

That number is a little high for Greg.

0:58.0

He usually supervises about 110 people at a time, which, if you couldn't guess, is a lot.

1:05.0

And maybe because he sees so many parolees, I'm struck when Greg says he had the same first

1:12.4

impression of Josh that I did, that this guy seemed genuinely determined to do better.

1:19.0

When I first met him, I'm thinking, oh, he's going to do all right and he'll stay out of trouble,

1:23.1

but he really struggled that first week.

1:25.6

The day I left Josh at the hospital, He really struggled that first week.

1:34.3

The day I left Josh at the hospital, he went straight to a county-run dormitory,

1:39.3

sort of like a government-subsidized group home for former inmates.

1:46.1

But was kicked out for some behavioral issues, I think maybe the second night he was there.

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