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And i want to fight for my country. weve got a war going on right now against terrorism and so many innocent lives have been taken. i want to fight. i want to fight for whats right. it makes me feel like im redeeming myself for all the bad karma that i set up for myself. >> i love this program. i am a vietnam vet myself. >> counselor frank sawyer is a corporate retiree. >> you are dealing with the physical parts of the program? >> like ive done 250 push-ups today alone. >> good. thats excellent....

So i go around robbing people. selling, selling cocaine, marijuana, x-pills and trying to live life. thats what i thought it was. >> drugs werent taylors only problem. hes also a former gangster disciple member. inside pendleton he serves his time in one of americas most innovative and riskiest programs, the gang unit. >> on the streets we was taught to smash somebody on sight, beat them up as soon as we see them and take what they got. we was taught to hate them. see most people want things the...

Work here and who stay, who stick it out through the difficult times of working with the adolescents are people that i say, if they can do this job, they can do any job. because this job will challenge everything about you. ♪ >> for some kids, it takes more than one stint behind bars to learn a lesson. 18-year-old michael brehm is nearing completion of a second round in pendleton. >> i was here the first time for 9 1/2 months. i came back here the second time for the exact same thing. minor co...

I am a vietnam vet myself. >> counselor frank sawyer is a ç corporate retiree. >> you are dealing with the physical parts of the program? >> like ive done 250 push-ups today alone. >> good. thats excellent. >> inside pendleton, he found the work of a lifetime with kids like madden and the future soldiers of echo 15. >> the futures soldiers program kind of breathes extra life into what im trying to do. >> attention on deck. >> when you step in there, somebodys in your face. >> good morning. >> g...

The violence got so bad for him. he admits how ignorant he was back then. he sees that he -- his way of thinking was incorrect. >> it was kind of crazy. i mean, seen a lot of stuff. ive been to rallies. i mean, all that stuff. ive seen 40-foot crosses burn and stuff like that. thats what we live by, thats just how we was. i didnt know anything different from it. just how stuff was. >> despite his past affiliation with the aryan nation, inside pendleton, michael jones learned how to get along wit...

Bars. charles taylor has been locked up for a year. >> i started selling drugs. started selling drugs hard. and the only way i could eat was rob somebody. so id go around robbing people, selling cocaine, marijuana, x pills. just trying to live life. thats what i thought it was. >> drugs werent taylors only problem. hes also a former gangster disciple member. inside pendleton hes in one of the riskiest programs. the gang unit. >> on the streets we was taught to smash on sight. beat them up and ta...

He admits how ignorant he was back then. he sees that he -- his way of thinking was incorrect. >> it was kind of crazy. i mean, seen a lot of stuff. ive been to rallies. i mean, all that stuff. ive seen 40-foot crosses burn and stuff like that. thats what we live by, thats just how we was. i didnt know anything different from it. just how stuff was. >> despite his past affiliation with the aryan nation, inside pendleton, michael jones learned how to get along with the very people he loved to hat...

>> reporter: counselor frank sawyer is a corporate retiree. >> are you dealing with the physical parts of the program? >> like ive done about 250 push-ups today alone. >> good. thats excellent. >> inside pendleton, he found the work of a lifetime with kids like madness and the future soldiers of echo 15. >> the future soldiers program kind of breathes extra life into what im trying to do. >> attention on deck! >> we step in there, somebodys in your face. >> good morning. >> good morning, sir! >>...

Than one stint behind bars to learn a lesson. 18-year-old michael brehm is nearing completion of a second round in pendleton. >> i was here the first time for 9 1/2 months. i came back here the second time for the exact same thing. minor consumption, public intox, alcohol problem, over-the-counter cough medicine problem, done a lot of that stuff. >> inside pendleton, military-like structure keeps brehm on the straight and narrow. all offenders must attend school daily. after being locked up for ...

Learn a lesson. 18-year-old michael brehm is nearing completion of a second round in pendleton. >> i was here the first time for 9 1/2 months. i came back here the second time for the exact same thing. minor consumption, public intox, alcohol problem, over-the-counter cough medicine problem, done a lot of that stuff. >> inside pendleton, military-like structure keeps brehm on the straight and narrow. all offenders must attend school daily. after being locked up for more than two years, michael h...