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Today, 7 messages had to do with behavior problems going on in the unit. >> stephanie roberts is a psychiatric social services counselor in pendleton's d-9 unit. over the past week, d-9 has had its share of trouble. let me see what you've done. let me see what you did. jacob! >> why did you do that? >> he's a good kid. >> i got bored. >> so you try to lose fingers because you got bored. >> of all the offenders behind bars at pendleton juvenile, 19-year-old jacob shauntee is one of the most perplexing for staff. >> every time staff does something, you don't agree with it, this is what you do,...

Violent than others or more to deal with, but that's what we're here for because it's all about correcting their behavior, because, you know, someone didn't do something somewhere, you know, to make sure they are not in here. coming up on "lock-up: pendleton juvenile," a glimpse into the horrific childhood of jacob shauntee. >> i was taken away from my dad. i was put with my mom. my dad went to prison for ten years for child abuse and attempted murder. >> and -- >> she doesn't want to come here. a lot of kids out there wouldn't make it. ♪ i tried hard to quit smoking. ♪ but when we broug...

>> i think a lot of the offenders have a lot of anger here because they have went through a lot of things at home, so when i read their charts, a lot of it makes sense on the why, why they're here, because it's been done to them. they've been cursed at and yelled at their whole life. juveniles, they come with a lot of baggage. >> no one knows about a lifetime of baggage more than 18-year-old pendleton inmate michael jones. >> i'm an ex-white supremist. that's why i'm in this unit. it's the gang unit. >> the first time i spoke with michael jones when he got out of seg and we brought him to a-1,...

To keep this kid from ending up in the adult system, but you don't ever give up because you just never know when something might click with somebody. >> you have to follow instructions. you don't follow instructions, when you get released, you will come right back in here. as a matter of fact, you're 18 -- >> 19. >> 19? you will be across the street to adult. >> i ain't coming back. >> but if you don't start following instructions, you will. >> contract with me that you won't self-harm yourself anymore, okay? >> did you learn something from this experience? follow instruction? >> yeah. >> foll...

They say we battered somebody but i think they got the wrong people. >> according to internal reports, three offenders snuck into a unit and jumped another student. pendleton staff identified cox and brady as two of the alleged perpetrators. >> i know who got battered, but i didn't know who done it. they said we done it. >> after a while, being bad ain't going to get you out, so you just got to be cool. i've been cool. i ain't been to seg for a while. i did kind of follow in my parents' footsteps and stuff, because they were in the family. my dad has been in prison and he's been if twice. my m...