and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. many of the underlying problems that land kids in detention are the result of defiant teen behavior mixed with stress at home. often older kids are caught in a difficult role of assuming the adult responsibilities of a single or absent parent. for ayryana, who regularly cares for her brothers while her mom works swing shifts at a local factory, being away from home makes an already tough situation worse. i can t take it in here. three days being locked up, not
and until her probation is over, she needs to have some restrictions. there are consequences to your actions. i ll order she have a mental health screening within 30 days and that you follow those recommendations to address whether or not she has depression and, if so, what help is out there for her. all right. then this hearing is adjourned. thank you. ayryana, you re going home. she s not somebody i think that s a real threat to the community, but more that has some anger issues that hopefully we can help her. that s what we re designed to do. we have children, and they are just doing things for the first time in their life. they re going through experiences that we as adults have experienced maybe too many times. but the adult system isn t equipped, nor does the law allow them to provide for all of these services from counseling to drug testing to vocational training to all sorts of services is that would help rehabilitate somebody. to have somebody actually fight for me to ge
schedule, it falls on ayryana to take over the responsibilities at home and play mother to her two brothers. a source of much frustration for her and partially why ayryana finds herself here today. when i finish i may or may not have a day off. then i go to day turns and then back to midnights, rotating backwards. okay, okay. that s all that i have, judge. thank you, you may have a seat. to get a final perspective on the case, the judge calls on the probation department for their recommendation. ayryana knows that the department s testimony could make or break her case. as high as the stakes are for ayryana, aaron is facing the ultimate punishment for a life of juvenile crime, being waived to the adult system. i m ready to get it over with. because i m 18 now. i m ready to move on with my life. and change. i m saying, make a different page. i m tired of this juvenile jail stuff. i m tired of jail, period. good morning. how are you?
so you just say that you re guilty just to go home? it s crazy. you can t go to girls school. because you ll be home tomorrow washing dishes. cleaning up. hopefully. ain t no hopefully, you re going home. okay, i better go. see you in the morning. with court scheduled for the next morning, ayryana prepares to spend what she hopes will be her last night in detention. i just hope i get to go home. if anything worse comes, house arrest, i guess. girls school is, from what i ve heard, like it s just the worst thing. over in the boys pod, 18-year-old aaron ashburn knows even boys school would be better than what he ll be facing in the morning. tomorrow is like a waiver hearing, trying to waive me across the street.
while others will be trials for serious offenses. 16-year-old ayryana has spent the weekend in detention for disorderly conduct at a high school football game. it s not her first time in juvenile. with two previous trips to the courtroom, the judge will have to decide whether ayryana should remain locked up or be allowed to go home with her mother. i want to tell the judge the whole story and just let her know that i i am going to school. i have changed a lot since the last time i have been to court. with the long, tense weekend behind her, it is finally ayryana s turn to tell her story. tell me what happened. me and my brother and a friend, we was going in line to get our tickets for the football game. and the principal had stopped me, and she said, well, um, i don t go to the school no more so either i had to leave or i had to go to the other side. when she came up, she came up with a police officer. so i said, um, okay, well i got to get my brothers first.