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That's the power of german engineering. behind the locked doors of pendleton juvenile correctional facility, there's more than just teen offenders behind bars. >> 33, copy. >> for staff here, this is a world most people never see or understand. no one knows this better than the nurses in pendleton's 24/7 medical unit. >> we have a lot of sex offenders here, and when you look at their files, someone has committed a sex crime on them

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 lik...

She was going to try to actually have me come home and stay with her, but she doesn't have the money for it. >> out of 12 messages i had 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. >> we've had people battering staff, we've had people urinating under doors. we've had a lot going on. so, i want to see from your guys' perspective what is going on in this unit that is leading to this negative behavior and how can we change it. ...

>> despite their claims of innocence, brandyn cox and nathan brady were found guilty of the battery that landed them in seg. since then, cox has been released. brady remains at pendleton. as for jacob shauntee, his future remains as troubled as his past. even though he's completed all programs and has earned his release, he can't go home. according to superintendent mike dempsey, jacob has no one or no place to take him in. >> it could be directly related to there being no parent, to there being no guardian, no relative that's willing to take the offender in. it could be that they've exhausted...

And you can't tell me that the 12 or 13-year-old knows really what they're doing, and i think that's why i have such a huge heart for these kids as opposed to adults who have committed a sex offense and they're 50, 60 years old, because they know better. >> are you having any trouble seeing or earring? >> you have to have a thick skin. you really do. i get called every name under the sun except for my real name, but they're kids. this is their normal, and that's what's so sad to me. this is their normal, and it shouldn't be that way. but, unfortunately, for a lot of these kids, it is. >> norma...