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This is their normal, and thats whats so sad to me. this is their normal, and it shouldnt be that way. but, unfortunately, for a lot of these kids, it is. >> normal for 19-year-old jacob shauntee has been a lifetime in the juvenile justice system. pendleton medical staff knows him well. unfortunately, shawntee is a regular visitor. today will be no exception. >> its not easy to do. stay here for a minute, relax, catch your breath. do whatever you do to try to settle down. >> after a fight with a...

>> if you want to actually put your chairs in a circle, id appreciate it. >> cameron never thought his sticky fingers would lead to time in juvenile prison. hes had two long years to think about his past. its not his trouble-making days he talks about the most. >> my dad, he could walk through the door right now and i wouldnt have any idea that was him. and my mom, she tries to be there for me, but she really doesnt. she was going to try to actually have me come home and stay with her, but she d...

Well, what happened? >> ive gotten bigger, i guess. >> well, cant you put them on and pull your shirt down over it? >> no, i cant. >> youre going to have to. >> do you want to wear that out? are you sure you cant -- >> no, these are too tight. i just -- >> well, go try. i dont want -- >> i did try! >> okay. well get you a pair of sweatpants, because that way, you wont be wearing that. >> after two long years and a teenager back at their side, adam and his grandparents finally leave pendleton. >>...

Ten. i could see it escalating. >> shauntee, come here! come here, come here! let me take care of the situation right here. calm down. dont do anything to yourself, okay? sit down, calm down. >> alanna shirk is a registered nurse on pendletons 24-hour medical unit. >> you see things youre not going to see other places, but a lot of the kids are like him, you know. if you know how to deal with them, a lot of times if you treat them with respect, youll get it back. not always, but its just learnin...

For every aggressive offender behind bars at pendleton juvenile, theres a former bad boy who has spent years exercising 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...

Gang unit with boggess and 23 of his cellmates. shes all too familiar with the public perception of the teens here. >> these are everyday kids, you know. every kid has issues. theirs might be a little more violent than others or more to deal with, but thats what were here for because its all about correcting their behavior, because, you know, someone didnt do something somewhere, you know, to make sure they are not in here. coming up on "lock-up: pendleton juvenile," a glimpse into the horrifi...

Let me see what youve done. let me see what you did. jacob! >> why did you do that? >> hes a good kid. >> i got bored. >> so you try to lose fingers because you got bored. >> of all the offenders behind bars at pendleton juvenile, 19-year-old jacob shauntee is one of the most perplexing for staff. >> every time staff does something, you dont agree with it, this is what you do, you cut or tie or something, dont you? every time. because you just want everything to be fair, right? sorry, buddy. >> ...

Energy level it takes to manage the day. when we gets kids in our system, its usually the end result of phenomenal interventions, but the young men and women i have in our juvenile system today are here because they have threatened the fabric of public safety. >> it was a different set of problems that landed 18-year-old adam cameron in pendleton. >> my biggest problem in life is just stealing things, touching things that dont belong to me. grand theft auto. stolen stuff. it started when i met a...

Like, normal. >> you know, i dont come up and ask individually what gang do you belong to, which gang are you affiliated with. because its not an issue. they act like theyre bad boys and so hard and stuff. they want to be safe. they want organization, that type of thing. >> safety isnt the only concern inside pendleton. education and counseling is also mandatory for release. >> people are having their own problems. this is the time were going to talk about -- >> across the yard, counselor stepha...

Ahead for offenders brandyn cox and nathan brady. >> they came and woke us up out of bed and said we were going to seg. we usually know what we did, because we usually go right away. but we didnt do nothing yet. they say we battered somebody but i think they got the wrong people. >> according to internal reports, three offenders snuck into a unit and jumped another student. pendleton staff identified cox and brady as two of the alleged perpetrators. >> i know who got battered, but i didnt know w...