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This facility, then i ve accomplished one of my goals. even though it takes some kids longer than others to shed their old skin, change can happen, even for a former white supremacist. i got 31 of them. i ain t finished it yet, but i m going to. but i ain t done it yet. i have the swastikas. the ss bolts. i ve had most of these since i was young. i just, like, i did them myself, most of them. had them for years. to be honest, my people are after me right now because i quit. so kind of crazy, but trying to change my life. just trying to get up out of here. it ain t going to be easy, i have to try as long as i can, but i can t run with them like i used to. can t do it. jones and justin boggess met when both were placed on the gang unit. in just a few days, jones will be released. ....
We ll get you a pair of sweatpants, because that way, you won t 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. i m a strong believer everything happens for a reason, and i feel that, you know, if i wouldn t have got locked up, i don t know where i would be. i d either be dead or i know for a fact i wouldn t have my ged. now when i get out, i plan on staying away from the gang stuff. i plan on getting a job, you know. i can t really tell how things are going to be until i get out and i carry through with things because i said all this last time i was going to do good, and i wasn t out for two months and i got hit with an armed robbery. despite their claims of ....
no, i can t. you re going to have to. do you want to wear that out? are you sure you can t no, these are too tight. i just well, go try. i don t want i did try! okay. we ll get you a pair of sweatpants, because that way, you won t 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. i m a strong believer everything happens for a reason, and i feel that, you know, if i wouldn t have got locked up, i don t know where i would be. i d either be dead or i know for a fact i wouldn t have my g.e.d. now when i get out, i plan on staying away from the gang stuff. i pl on getting a job, you know. i can t really tell how things ....
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, ....
Boggess, one stint behind bars wasn t enough to stop the revolving door. this is my second time being in a juvenile prison. i m the type of person that i m been trying to change it, but i still have that part of me i m going to do what i want, when i want. ain t nobody going to stop me. as he serves his time in pendleton s gang unit, boggess says his former ties with the imperial gangsters gave him street cred, but that wasn t his own crutch on the outside. when you have a gun on you, it makes you feel a lot safer than it would if you didn t have one. the neighborhood i grew up in, people always shooting, fighting and stuff, and it s crazy. it makes you feel powerful, too, like you can t be touched, and i like that feeling. even behind bars, boggess has had his share of violent episodes fighting, battery, attempted escape. this is his second stint in a juvenile prison, this time for armed robbery. ....