Mark James, left, leads boot camp participants in marching drills at the Easter Seals Camp in Mt. Juliet. Marchers keep in step with directions from James, at left. It's a second chance. But camp officials say the 30-day program at the Easter Seals camp in Mt. Juliet is experiencing troubles of its own.
Organizers have only enough funding to run one boot-camp session a year.
John Claybon, the program's founder. To be really effective, we need more time with them. What we are hoping is that through donations we will have enough money to fund the entire program. Violent and habitual offenders are ineligible. Claybon came up with the idea for New Beginnings about seven years ago.