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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. >> normal for 19-year-old jacob shauntee has been a lifetime in the juvenile justice system. 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...

>> if you want to actually put your chairs in a circle, i'd appreciate it. >> cameron never thought his sticky fingers would lead to time in juvenile prison. he's had two long years to think about his past. it's not his trouble-making days he talks about the most. >> my dad, he could walk through the door right now and i wouldn't have any idea that was him. and my mom, she tries to be there for me, but she really doesn't. 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 beha...

Well, what happened? >> i've gotten bigger, i guess. >> well, can't you put them on and pull your shirt down over it? >> 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 ...

Ten. i could see it escalating. >> shauntee, come here! come here, come here! let me take care of the situation right here. calm down. don't do anything to yourself, okay? sit down, calm down. >> alanna shirk is a registered nurse on pendleton's 24-hour medical unit. >> you see things you're not going to see other places, but a lot of the kids are like him, you know. if you know how to deal with them, a lot of times if you treat them with respect, you'll get it back. not always, but it's just learning them. please. >> shauntee? >> take some breaths. i'll be right back. i'll be right back. >> i...

For every aggressive offender behind bars at pendleton juvenile, there's a former bad boy who has spent years exercising the demons of his past. 18-year-old john madden is one of those kids. >> i turned 15 here, i turned 16 here. i turned 17 here and turned 18 here. i got when i was staff charged. and i feel bad about it you and these officers don't do nothing here but come and do their jobs and i was being stupid and ignorant and thought, hey, he's going to mess with me, i will mess with him and i don't even feel like talking about it. >> madden would sit here as a disciplinary disturbance fr...