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Stream your favorite movies and full seasons of shows instantly on any screen. find out more online. offenders at pendleton juvenile correctional facility serve anywhere from six months to several years behind bars. 18-year-old offender, charles taylor, has been locked up for a year. >> i started selling drugs. started selling drugs hard. and figured only way i can eat is to rob somebody. so i go around robbing people. selling, selling cocaine, marijuana, x-pills and trying to live life. thats...

>> 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. >> good morning, sir. >> attention. and they answer you, if not yes, its yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> this bed is a train wreck. it needs to be fixed. >> yes, sir. >> when you come face to ...

Everything else. we went in on them and theyre really not committing suicide, theyre trying to hurt staff. you dont want to see it, but it does happen. >> the individuals who choose to 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-o...

Taylor, has been locked up for a year. >> i started selling drugs. started selling drugs hard. and figured only way i can eat is to rob somebody. 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 t...

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 hopes the six months he spent in pendletons su...

>> 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. >> good morning, sir. >> attention. and they answer you, if not yes, its yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> this bed is a train wreck. it needs to be fi...

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 smash a vice lord 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 they aint never had before. and they believe money can get you anything. it aint about bringing you happiness. its about you want to be on the higher level than the average person. you want to be so...

>> 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 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 d...

Were the targets of many, you know, violent acts. he was placed in segregation for his own protection for a little while. 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 stuf...

>> 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. >> 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. >> good morning, sir. >> attention...