31. This includes volunteering as a First Aider for The Red Cross and doing night shifts at his local homeless night shelter . 32. He sticks a toe in the water by volunteering in the kitchen of a night shelter , and his efforts soon escalate. 33. Suggs estimates that at least 50 percent of the Night Shelter population is mentally ill, incapable of making sound life decisions. 34. The Presbyterian Night Shelter in Fort Worth took in 534 people, about 100 more than usual, director John Suggs said. 35. Many had been repeatedly returned to the unit after one-night shelter stays, a practice also outlawed by court order. 36. The process is repeated throughout the night _ and every Wednesday between November and March, the five months Central Night Shelter operates. 37. "Our shelter was packed with over 500 people, " said John Suggs, executive director of the night shelter . 38. The alleged acts occurred in January after a film crew finished shooting in an alley next to the Children of the Night shelter . 39. Night shelters were also strategic concessions : they acted as an inexpensive, stopgap source of minimal care where orphanages had failed.40. In 2011, the technique was taught to about 65 individuals at the Children of the Night shelter for teen prostitutes in Los Angeles.