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

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 stephanie roberts is letting offenders in unit d-9 vent. >> because i know you all have issues youd like to talk about. trust me. im your counselor, i know. be...

Oh my gosh, thats horrible!, which would you choose? geico. over their competitor. do you want to finish it? no. does the baby want to finish it? no. behind the locked doors of pendleton juvenile correctional facility, theres more than just teen offenders behind bars. >> 33, copy. >> for staff here, this is a world most people never see or understand. no one knows this better than the nurses in pendletons 24/7 medical unit. >> we have a lot of sex offenders here, and when you

-- you heard, once hes calm -- >> in about ten minutes im going to send him -- >> let him come down, and then ill give him some one-on-one. ill see you in a little bit, okay? all right. >> randall sawyer is the charge nurse in pendletons medical unit. here, staff sees more than 150 offenders a day for everything from daily med distribution to serious offender battery. self-cutting is also no surprise. >> a lot of them will cut on themselves for self-mutilation to relieve the anger. they say it j...

>> we have a lot of sex 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 ç 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 th...

>> attention all units, we have a signal ten. hold all radio traffic. >> at pendleton juvenile correctional facility, 40 minutes east of indianapolis, staff must always be prepared for the unexpected. >> you just talk to me. >> calm down. dont hurt yourself. shauntee, stop. thats not helping nothing! shauntee. >> got to call medical. >> yeah. >> shauntee. hes punching himself right now. >> this maximum security juvenile facility houses some of the states most challenging juvenile offenders. 19-y...

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 who done it. they said we done it. >> after a while, being bad aint going to get you out, so you just got to be cool. ive been cool. i aint been to se...

Innocence, brandyn cox and nathan brady were found guilty of the battery that landed them in seg.ç since then, cox has been released. brady remains at pendleton. as for jacob shauntee, his future remains as troubled as his past. even though hes completed all programs and has earned his release, he cant go home. according to superintendent mike dempsey, jacob has no one or no place to take him in. >> it could be directly related to there being no parent, to there being no guardian, no relative ...

Been 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 have a gun on you, it makes you feel a lot safer than it would if you didnt have one.ç the neighborhood i grew up in, people always shooting, fighting and stuff, and its crazy. it m...

>> 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. >> get this one right here on top. >> hes done it before, and its shocking. his nail bed is purple. thats pretty bad. like i said, hes done it before. >> just two weeks ago, o...