across the yard 18-year-old justin tries to adapt to living in the gang unit. like most kids here, bad habits started young. >> i have been here a little over 18 months. i'm an imperial gangster. that's a gang under the folk nation. the first gang experience was probably when i was probably 14. part of it was just kind of like another family, and the other part of it was just fitting in. it's an adrenaline rush. it got your adrenaline pumping and i don't know. a lot of teenagers, that's kind of what we do it for is that adrenaline rush. i got my first felony when i was 9, and like a lot of my family kind of -- they was with me at first and then they kind of gave up on me. because they seen i kept getting locked up and they figured there was no hope for me. >> the adolescents, sometimes when they go through the court system, i like to say they're a three-time loser. many of the parents have been through court, numerous times,