Jack Whalen spent two years of his childhood locked in a box barely bigger than the back of a pickup truck. He’s spent countless more nights reliving those memories in his head.
His dreams are violent. He once broke his nose on his bedside table while thrashing against the guards in his sleep.
Tired of feeling helpless, Whalen came home from Ontario last week and built a replica of a solitary confinement cell at the Whitbourne Boys’ Home — complete with the chalk marks he made to count the days he spent inside.
On Monday morning, in the frigid cold and rain, he positioned it outside Confederation
