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Public perception of the teens here. >> these are everyday kids, you know. every kid has issues. theirs might be a little more 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 -- >> k...

>> i was born into white supremacy. my family is mixed up in it. i was hustling, breaking into houses, i would beat people up. we was growing weed, we was selling weed, we was toting guns. we was doing a little bit of everything. >> early on we did a room search, actually found a picture of ava brawn in his belongings that he had posted like a centerfold. like, he thought ava brawn was a supermodel or centerfold he would look up to because of the ties with adolf hitler. >> in a highly risky move, staff decided to place jones in pendleton's grow program. a unit where rival gang members have to ...

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, inside pendleton michael jones learned how to get along with the very people he loved to hate. >> i mean, this is a ...

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 supremacist. 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, he was just filled wi...

Else? promise? okay. and then once you leave time-out -- you heard, once he's calm -- >> in about ten minutes i'm going to send him -- >> let him come down, and then i'll give him some one-on-one. i'll see you in a little bit, okay? all right. >> randall sawyer is the charge nurse in pendleton's medical unit. here, staff sees more than 150 offenders a day for everything from daily med distribution to serious offender battery. self-cutting is also no surprise. >> a lot of them will cut on themselves for self-mutilation to relieve the anger. they say it just feels good. and it's sad that they ha...