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Pendleton medical staff knows him well. unfortunately, shawntee is a regular visitor. today will be no exception. >> it's not easy to do. stay here for a minute, relax, catch your breath. do whatever you do to try to settle down. >> after a fight with an officer on his unit, it takes a team of staff to carefully handle the fragile shauntee. >> how old are you? >> 19. >> you're a grown man. you're a grown man. you have to learn to control that anger. it's getting out of hand, all right? >> you walk off the street and walk in here, at least to me, it was unbelievable. you never know what to expe...

And so hard and stuff. they want to be safe. they want organization, that type of thing. >> safety isn't the only concern inside pendleton. education and counseling is also mandatory for release. >> people are having their own problems. this is the time we're going to talk about -- >> across the yard, counselor stephanie roberts is letting offenders in unit d-9 vent. >> because i know you all have issues you'd like to talk about. trust me. i'm your counselor, i know. because you always come running to me. this is our time to get them out. a lot of these kids have longer rap sheets than most ad...

>> 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...

Reacted, but it don't really get to me like it would other people. but i mean, yeah, i think about it sometimes, like, i mean, she never did anything to me. i shouldn't have done that to her. but it don't really get to me like that. it crossed my mind that she didn't give me the money, to shoot her, but luckily, she gave me the money and it didn't come to that. it wasn't like i was thinking like i normally do. it was like my mind was kind of clouded. the first time, like, i ever pulled a gun on somebody, yeah, kind of made me a little nervous and stuff, like what if i have to shoot him and i g...

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 only 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 li...