from that, talk to them in person or talk to somebody else. who have you hurt through all of this? my mother, my little sister. my nieces and nephews. that s it? was it an apartment that you burned down? the arson, yeah. what about the people impacted by that? coming up, will andrew huff convince the review committee he s realized the error of his ways? and the pressure is on for abel villegas. are you remorseful for the things that you did? and they say you have a broken jaw and a broken eye socket. a conversation with the victim of marcus branch s attack. now let s go back to lockup: why combine performance with a conscience?
while some days inside pendleton juvenile can be endless drama for inmates and staff, today brings tension of a different kind. for 18-year-old andrew huff and abel, review hearings to determine if they will be released from prison. i got an arson, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest, and i got probation violation for threatening to kill three girls. i m nervous because this determines whether i go home or not. then again, i m confident i m going to go home because i haven t been in trouble in a long time. i got future plans to go to college and play football. i got my ged, so hopefully i ll make it. the review committee is an
happened. it was time for dining hall. i informed the kids it s dime for dining hall. get your coats and shoes on. walked up to shut the tv off. one of the inmates blind-sided me, hit me in the face. next thing i know, i m picking myself up off the floor about five feet away. the spontaneity of incidents like that, and they tend to come from nowhere. i think it goes back to the core of the person and they have no hope. they truly believe with the soul of every fiber of their being is that their future is to end up in an adult facility. the average length of stay is one year for teens inside the walls of pendleton juvenile correctional facility. abel has been here for ten months. today is his shot to convince
rehabilitate all teens behind bars. pendleton, dempsey got rid of long term seg in favor of a short-term segregation policy. in some cases, you have to segregate an offender in the best interests of everybody else, to keep people safe and keep people from getting hurt. you have to find a balance between keeping people safe, yet also finding a way to offer treatment programs that will make a difference to turn that particular kid around. what are the options out there? what new ideas and creative programming can we come up with? you have to think outside the box and take risks, unfortunately. coming up, abel villegas struggles to come to grips with more time behind bars. it makes you miss your family a lot. you don t have that much freedom in here. you have people telling when you to eat, when to go to the
i informed the kids it s dime for dining hall. get your coats and shoes on. walked up to shut the tv off. one of the inmates blind-sided me, hit me in the face. next thing i know, i m picking myself up off the floor about five feet away. the spontaneity of incidents like that, and they tend to come from nowhere. i think it goes back to the core of the person and they have no hope. they truly believe with the soul of every fiber of their being is that their future is to end up in an adult facility. the average length of stay is one year for teens inside the walls of pendleton juvenile correctional facility. abel has been here for ten months. today is his shot to convince the release committee he s ready to go home. we review their packet, and