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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 officers and medical staff had their hands full with jacob dur...

But facial tattoos, ear lobe stretching and ritual scarification. what would make someone go this far? dr. armando favazza has never met or treated meg but says there are common reasons people do this. >> for example, rebellion and anger, especially towards people in the past who may have harmed you or people who have let you down. >> dr. armando favazza is author of "bodies under siege," considered to be the seminal book on self-mutilation. hes also a practicing psychiatrist. >> and what happen...

Started cutting his arm with it. reopened his scars where he perviously cut himself up. >> take his toothbrush, too. >> so now what? >> nothing. go back to my cell and wait another couple months. i guess. "lockup" crews have encountered many other self-mutilators. >> some people self-injure as a manipulation because they want to get move. some people self-injure as a cry of help. some people self-injure to get even. you know, im going to hurt myself and im going to show you kind of thing, so ang...

Heres where we house all the inmates that couldnt be handled at another institution or couldnt be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> ive been in here so long it kind of releases stress. >> how do you cut yourself? >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction and i find stuff in here, staples, plastic from deodorants and stuff li...

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, officers and medical staff had their hands full with jacob during a meltdown in a time-out cell. tonight they frantically...

>> 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...

the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the army says some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet witnesses say it was the army that fired on the protesters. the stories may be different but no one can deny this. dead bodies in the morgue. the victims of this weekends clashes. too many vic...

pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypts population. theyve faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protest...

clashes between the army and pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypts population. theyve faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set...

coptic hospital where more than a dozen bodies, people killed in these demonstrations. there was a lot of anger against the military leaders of egypt, people accusing them of working with muslim fanatics against the christian minority, minority that makes up about 9% of the population. what we also saw were muslims coming to console the families of people who had lost victims in this fighting. so there is an attempt on sort of a personal street level by people to narrow this widening s...