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Offenders at pendleton juvenile correctional facility serve anywhere from six months to several years behind bars. 18-year-old offender, charles taylor, has been locked up for a year. >> i started selling drugs. started selling drugs hard. and figured only way i can eat is to rob somebody. so i go around robbing people. selling, selling cocaine, marijuana, x-pills and trying to live life. that's what i thought it was. >> drugs weren't taylor's only problem. he's also a former gangster disciple member. inside pendleton he serves his time in one of america's most innovative and riskiest programs...

Problem, done a lot of that stuff. >> inside pendleton, military-like structure keeps brehm on the straight and narrow. all offenders must attend school daily. after being locked up for more than two years, michael hopes the six months he spent in pendleton's substance abuse program will give him the skills to stay out for good. >> my groups have helped me quite a bit. the substance abuse groups, they helped me think of things that could keep my time occupied, the reasons why i should stay sober. i'm 18 years old now. time for me to be an adult, to grow up. done doing all my old things. >> eve...

Michael jones has morphed from white supremacist to model offender inside pendleton. >> several good things came from me being locked up. know what i'm saying? i figured out that i got to interact with different racial groups to help me out. in life you can't hate. it's too mixed up now. the world's too mixed up. there ain't the '60s and '50s. can't be segregated any more. i got my g.e.d. that's a big deal. i never thought i was going to get my g.e.d. >> today, after a year behind bars, jones is set to be a free man. despite his split from the aryan nation, he will return home to an environmen...

Decided to place jones in pendleton's grow unit. a unit where rival gang members have to live side by side. >> the white supremacists are a small minority here. when he was in general population, he and one of the fellow guys he clicked up with were the targets of many, you know, violent acts. he was placed in segregation for his own protection for a little while. the violence got so bad for him. he admits how ignorant he was back then. he sees that he -- his way of thinking was incorrect. >> it was kind of crazy. i mean, seen a lot of stuff. i've been to rallies. i mean, all that stuff. i've ...

Fellow guys he clicked up with were the targets of many, you know, violent acts. he was placed in segregation for his own protection for a little while. the violence got so bad for him. he admits how ignorant he was back then. he sees that he -- his way of thinking was incorrect. >> it was kind of crazy. i mean, seen a lot of stuff. i've been to rallies. i mean, all that stuff. i've seen 40-foot crosses burn and stuff like that. that's what we live by, that's just how we was. i didn't know anything different from it. just how stuff was. >> despite his past affiliation with the aryan nation, in...