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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 an officer on his unit, it takes a team of staff to carefully handle the fragile shauntee. >> how old are you? >> 19. >> youre a grown man. youre a grown man. you have to learn to control that anger. its getting out of hand, all right? >> you walk o...

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. because you always come running ...

>> 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. >> last but not least, michael jones. >> just a few hours later, michael jones and his family also say their good-byes. but back inside the razor wire fences of pendleton juvenile, justin boggess still faces time behind bars. >> im a strong believer everything happens for a reason, and i...

Reacted, but it dont really get to me like it would other people. but i mean, yeah, i think about it sometimes, like, i mean, she never did anything to me. i shouldnt have done that to her. but it dont really get to me like that. it crossed my mind that she didnt give me the money, to shoot her, but luckily, she gave me the money and it didnt come to that. it wasnt like i was thinking like i normally do. it was like my mind was kind of clouded. the first time, like, i ever pulled a gun on somebo...

Im the type of person that im 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 only 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. the neighborhood i grew up in, people always shooting, fighting an...

Today, 7 messages had to do with behavior problems going on in the unit. >> stephanie roberts is a psychiatric social services counselor in pendletons d-9 unit. over the past week, d-9 has had its share of trouble. 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 perple...

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 horrific childhood of jacob shauntee. >> i was taken away from my dad. i was put with my mom. my dad went to prison for ten years for child abuse and attempted murder. >> and -- >> she doesnt want to come here. a ...

>> i think a lot of the offenders have a lot of anger here because they have went through a lot of things at home, so when i read their charts, a lot of it makes sense on the why, why theyre here, because its been done to them. theyve been cursed at and yelled at their whole life. juveniles, they come with a lot of baggage. >> no one knows about a lifetime of baggage more than 18-year-old pendleton inmate michael jones. >> im an ex-white supremist. thats why im in this unit. its the gang unit. >...

To keep this kid from ending up in the adult system, but you dont ever give up because you just never know when something might click with somebody. >> you have to follow instructions. you dont follow instructions, when you get released, you will come right back in here. as a matter of fact, youre 18 -- >> 19. >> 19? you will be across the street to adult. >> i aint coming back. >> but if you dont start following instructions, you will. >> contract with me that you wont self-harm yourself anymor...

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 seg for a while. i did kind of follow in my parents footsteps and...