Well, right off the bat, you're.... I don't know how to say it any nicer: You are read the riot act. You are told that if you make a sound, you will be asked to leave immediately. This is at parole hearings. You feel almost like you're the criminal. You are told to be quiet and you are told to read your statement and not to deviate one word from it, and then you're to sit down and be quiet. We were afraid to even cough, to be honest.
They're very intimidating. After four or five hours of straining to listen, because they plunk the victims way in the back of the room, many rows from the parole board members and the offender and their people, it's exhausting. It's just absolutely exhausting, and then it's only to go home and two or three months later get another letter that they're looking for parole again, so you go through it all over again if you so choose to.