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Offenders here. and when you look at their files, someone has committed a sex crime on them and you cant tell me that the 12 or 13-year-old knows really what theyre doing. and i think thats why i have such a huge heart for these kids as opposed to adults who have committed a sex offense and theyre 50, 60 years old, because they know better. >> are you having any trouble seeing or anything? feel dizzy or anything? nothing? okay. >> you have to have a thick skin. you really do. i get called every ...

>> this is my second time being in a juvenile prison. im the type of person that im trying to change it, but i still have that part of me im going to do what i want, when i want. aint nobody going to stop me. >> as he serves his time in pendletons gang unit, boggess says his former ties with the imperial gangsters gave him street cred but that wasnt his own crutch on the outside. >> when you got a gun on you, it makes you feel a lot safer than it would if you didnt have one. the neighborhood i g...

Behind bars inside pendleton juvenile, some days can be tougher than others. for offenders and staff. when both are pushed to the limit, pendletons care team is called into action. >> the care team is about trying to bring down the number of physical forces. and its actually brought them down. every day different people are assigned to it. today were both on the care team. whatever the situation is, you go to where they call you and talk to the kid and kind of deescalate it so it doesnt go into ...

>> you ready? >> coat on. >> are you ready? >> yes, sir. >> military officers dwayne cooley and rick johnson have waited for this day for months. >> how do you feel about getting ready to take the test? >> i dont know. >> i know youve been studying so if youre prepared youll be fine. >> its now time to make the one-hour drive to indianapolis where madden will take his three-hour military test. >> im very proud of him. im real excited, too. im so excited im not even taking the test and so, just r...

Pendleton juvenile, theres a former bad boy who has spent years exorcising the demons of his past. 18-year-old john madden is one of those kids. >> i turned 15 here, i turned 16 here. i turned 17 here and turned 18 here. i got when i was staff charged. and i feel bad about it you and these officers dont do nothing here but come and do their jobs and i was being stupid and ignorant and thought, hey, hes going to mess with me, i will mess with him and i dont even feel like talking about it. >> mad...

Get some lunch in you and maybe tomorrow we start all over. and if youve got some conflict with the teacher, just let that go, because youre there to get your ged, which, in the end, has nothing to do with her, right? >> yeah. >> because thats for down the road. >> she was the reason i got -- >> no. no. you need to take on the accountability. youre here because whatever happened with you. but youre also going to get out of here because of whatever you do. so youve got the control with that. so t...

Having an outburst and be hurting someone. and it just comes out of nowhere. you dont ever give up because you never know whats going to work today that didnt work yesterday. >> the challenges are understanding what makes a kid react before he thinks. it can get to the point that when they strike out it can go from one victim to multiple victims over a candy bar. next, on "lockup pendleton juvenile," from teenage troublemaker to pendleton role model. can this longtime offender hold the key to ...

>> coat on. >> are you ready? >> yes, sir. >> military officers dwayne cooley and rick johnson have waited for this day for months. >> how do you feel about getting ready to take the test? >> i dont know. >> i know youve been studying so if youre prepared youll be fine. >> its now time to make the one-hour drive to indianapolis where madden will take his three-hour military test. >> im very proud of him. im real excited, too. im so excited im not even taking the test and so, just real big day. >...

Look at their files, someone has committed a sex crime on them and you cant tell me that the 12 or 13-year-old knows really what theyre doing, and i think thats why i have such a huge heart for these kids as opposed to adults who have committed a sex offense and theyre 50, 60 years old, because they know better. >> are you having any trouble seeing or earring? >> you have to have a thick skin. you really do. i get called every name under the sun except for my real name, but theyre kids. this is ...

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 hate. >> i mean, this is a real c...