[Music] San Antonio the second largest city in Texas in the Southern United States it's here that we find Bexar County jail with 4,500 inmates it is more densely populated than the flurry meoi prison in France the largest prison in Europe in the leadup to their trials inmates spend several months here most of them are adults but one unit is reserved for juveniles all of them are younger than [Applause] 18 hey can you call master control please Sergeant Stephanie Flores handles special operations for the Sheriff before laying down the law in this jail she worked at
nightclubs so hey sir you how are you doing want talk to me talk to it's about another officer and he assaulted me he assaulted you or did the floor assault you he assaulted me see on camera okay Stephany deals with this type of violence on a daily basis anything is possible but whether it is do I do will I always believe my officers over the inmates absolutely legally all of these inmates are Innocent but the conditions of their incarceration are very distressing all right they love each other however love is not the reason these women
are holding on to one another it's cold yes and that's why you are yes trying to stay warm they know that can we consider them still innocent yes we can but we do not treat them and such in order for they have come into this facility and we are not to make it a place place in which they'd like to come back it is not supposed to feel like it's a good and comfortable environment it's supposed to feel like jail when you're asking me to to tell you whether you're innocent or not the only thing
I can do is point to this patch and ask them what does it say it says Sheriff it does not say judge it does not say jury it just tells me that this is my job this is what I do for Stephanie there is no room for empathy here not even for the mentally [Music] ill you want me to to open the door why I'm sorry does my reality exist yes absolutely sir okay any I can't open the door we're good I got to go he's yeah yeah in the United States the number of incarcerated
juveniles is equal to the total number of prisoners in France to combat this phenomenon Stephanie has designed designed a shock program for high school students in the city huh we're going to line you up uh there's 12 of you right okay so six will go on one side six will go on the other all females for a few hours they will step into the shoes of an inmate and Stephanie won't hold anything back I'm going to tell you right now I'm not kiding around with you stand up get on the wall stand up put your
hands on your back these kids haven't committed any crimes so their first experience of prison life is brutal got really intense really fast once again ladies there's no talking if y'all do want to talk and this is just the beginning after putting on the inmates uniforms their hands and feet are cuffed once you're in here you are technically being treated as an inmate St behind here hold on Stephanie immediately introduces them to the harsh conditions in the prison cells so I want y'all to see you see all them in there just by looking at this
in here guys I mean tell me that's awful right you see them laying on the floor that's what they do they lay on the floor peeing on herself just disgusting if you don't like it well then don't come to jail that's my policy to make a lasting impression on these teenagers Stephanie takes them here to the unit resered for juveniles the inmates are the same age as [Music] them hours a day come out hour a day come out the shower come out at one hour during the week Recreation and that's [Music] it this Recreation does
not take place outside but rather here in the unit's common room what you got you got [Music] T and there rules that toilet may be for p only that toilet may be for poop that toilet may be for both and if you break one of them rules you're going to get th for be honest they beat people up for going to the wrong bathroom no sun no clocks it's like Vegas but not as fun to keep tensions High Stephanie has staged an emergency intervention for the students with the jail special [Music] unit your you're faing
down you're not looking up the hold on put let's go em first first line stay where you're at this Elite unit is trained to intervene during the most critical situations in the jail turn around and face these sht officers Coral with 16 years of experience Lieutenant Spangler is in charge of the unit my guys if you want to fight somebody they have no problem using force on you tasing you pepper spraying you pepper balling you the chair the chair one way or another you're going to do what we want you ever seen someone hog tied
before we do that we do that for two hours you'd be locked up like that in a hog tie position if my lieutenant tells me I'm allowed to hog tie someone it's like Christmas please after spending more than two hours in the inmates world the experience has taken its toll on the students it's a lot more intense than I expected it's it's way different than what you see like on the TV or the cameras you know it's just hearing it smelling it it's all different this definitely makes me want to stay on the right track
and just I don't ever want to be in here the United States has the largest prison population in the world with 2.3 million Americans Behind Bars and children are included in this total they can be imprisoned from the age of 10 you know you cannot put a kid in jail that's not [Music] right only 30% of miners are imprisoned for violent acts most are detained for smaller offenses such as drug use any kind of substance it's a usable amount that's all you need to prosecute when they commit a serious crime their age is no excuse
children can be tried as adults and incarcerated alongside them I don't want another 15-year-old to come into an adult Correctional Facility to deal with the nightmare that is dealing with the prison system the prison conditions for young people are violent and end up causing them irreversible trauma if these people had no mental health issues before they entered solitary they do now they are placed in solitary confinement isolated for months and cells without Windows where they are frequently starved and beaten when they are released many of them are unable to readapt to normal life I feel
like my childhood my spirit out of you know some prisons use an alternative approach we have to start treating kids like kids and not like inmates but this is still a very rare approach America has chosen to punish its youth the hard way occasionally pushing fundamental rights to the Limit here there is no mercy for kids who do not respect the [Music] law La Hoya one of the poor cities in Texas situated at the Mexican [Music] border this state holds the record number of prisoners in the country 218,000 which is three times the number in
France the reason so many children are included in this total is due to the amount of police officers present in schools the 43 Scholastic establishments within this Education Agency have chosen to invest in a police force that is exclusively dedicated to them they have substantial resources at their disposal assault rifles and approximately 60 cameras in each school from middle school to high school Captain Perez is in charge of surveying the students every move if I want to see what's going on at some of the other schools I do have access all he has to do
is just click and he can see what's going on it can be a bullying it can be narcotics it can be uh weapons and in some cases it can be um assaults to ensure that all offenses are recorded a system of paid informance has been put into place we do have got different type of criminal mischiefs thefts have you report any thefts information about a theft is worth $40 while information about a firearm is worth $200 with the help of this system police officers make approximately 100 arrests per year often for things which would not
go beyond a disciplinary board in France okay ma'am um maxel in we're going to process him here we're going to go through here okay go ahead stand by the wall I'm G to take a picture this 16-year-old is here for punching another student during a fight over a girl a complaint has been lodged so this young man will be treated like a criminal okay you have the right to remain silent and not make any statement at all any statement you make may be used as evidence against you in court I know what I did is
wrong although there will be no prison sentence for him this fight will haunt him for the rest of his life it's going to be on file for there okay okay with a criminal record it will be difficult for him to get a school scholarship a bank loan or even a [Music] job it is impossible for these kids to fall through the cracks the police watch them all day in this high school there are six police officers and four security officers they Patrol the building together and collaborate with the school staff among them is Fabian he
has been working in this school for 3 years where you going here class take a minute this morning he is escorting this student to the school supervisor's office because she has skipped class what's going on why are you in my office no you have no idea why your officer brought you in so far you've skipped two classes today can I trust you to show up yes yes you can go back as part of their day-to-day tasks these police officers have a very similar job to a school monitor in France they keep students moving in the
corridors and make sure they go to class let's go guys hurry up guys hurry up guys let's [Music] go go guys hurry [Music] up we're here to help the students and the staff to work together basically at the end of the day it's time for the kids you know help them graduate that's what we're here [Music] for nowadays more than 40% of America's public schools have at least one police officer officer at their disposal their presence is mainly required due to the war against drugs that has been waging in schools since the 9s regular raids
are organized in the schools at La Hoya by the police K9 [Music] Brigade we do have a drug free zone mhm which are the schools mhm and there is a zero tolerance at the schools also any kind of substance it's a usable amount that's all you need to to prosecute the principal of this High School fully endorses this policy the police officers escort her to the classrooms we always welcome you it's always good to be here good morning everybody sorry to interrupt um she supervises the searches in the classrooms you all to please step out
of the classroom uh take off your jackets leave your backpacks this is completely normal for the students that makes them more secure in school cuz of the DRS they might take out taking precautions it's it's good to to take care of our community so it's not scary he's already been in the school district for about four years he knows what to do he'll go in through the desks and work the the classroom they didn't find anything this time but drugs are the main reason for police interventions in the schools in this area be going T
from 5 108 R to East academy uh serve a warrant officer Jose alzando has to arrest a 17-year-old student found in possession of a small amount of cocaine at school hello hello Miss Sanchez hi yeah okay I have a warant can we go ahead and start U picking up the student he's here okay hello sir hello are you then um let me just yeah L Torres okay um we have a remember the case from September what's the cas from September yeah the the bgy the B okay we have to send that out to get tested
okay um based on the testing the results came back positive it is Coke we're going to have to take it to a judge so the judge can reu your rights reach your the charge and everything from there we have to process you take you to the county jail okay the teenager is terrified this is the first time that he has had a run with the police just just don't freak out there's nothing that you should worry about it's just a process okay um has my mom already we're going to call your mom right now but
it hasn't been done no but we're going to call her can you call her can you call her right now yeah the arrest is uh regardless is going to happen whether your parents know or they don't know or they answer or they don't answer at this point in time you're considered an adult uh so we really you're not a jeo anymore in Texas it is possible to arrest and imprison children from the age of 10 once they have reached the age of 17 they are automatically tried and sentenced as adults for the principal of this
High School this is completely normal I think that they know what they're doing at this age they do know what they're doing they need to be responsible and held responsible they need to have some consequences because if we don't give them consequences it's going to continue the young man is sent to the county jail for a few hours to have both his photograph and his fingerprints taken are you scary yeah never done this never been through the process he will be released this evening and will avoid jail this time but a re offense will put
him directly behind [Music] bars the United States is the only country in the world that has not adopted the UN convention on the rights of the child which gives the right to plead the defense of being a minor when the charges are serious adolescent can be tried sentenced and incarcerated a alongside [Music] adults Brazoria Texas 500 km north of La Hoya this small town is known for its Adult Correctional Facility one of the oldest in the country Austin everol was imprisoned here 10 years ago when he was only [Music] 15 we have been given permission
to talk to him for 1 hour under close supervision Austin still has to spend 30 years in jail for murdering his father and I uh I shot him because I thought seriously that my life was in danger and he already had uh told me earlier in the day that he wanted to kill me and he had a knife near him so I just I snapped and I wish I wouldn't have prior to committing the crime Austin had already spent several years being beaten and humiliated by his father on a daily basis irrationally I thought that
by killing him I would end the trouble and that I guess my life would be good I don't know this is the mind of underdeveloped 15-year-old however it is at this age that his court appointed lawyer makes him sign an agreement sentencing him to 40 years in prison without a trial before a jury this adult sentence sends him here to live among adult [Music] inmates you're so young and you see these people and a lot of the time you're like oh I want what he's got or he's cool or he reminds me of my dad
and that put you in a trajectory to living a bad way because you're not around positive people you're surrounded by criminals people that are hardened people that have been doing this you know Time After Time statistics show that juveniles imprisoned with adults are five times more at risk of being raped and their suicide rate is 10 times higher than the average prisoner I don't want another 15-year-old to come into an adult Correctional Facility I don't want that to happen to anyone else for them to for them and their family to deal with the nightmare that
is dealing with the prison [Music] system Austin will be released from prison when he is 55 years [Music] old in Texas this severity towards juveniles has yet to prove its worth the rate of drug use continues to increase and the rein incarceration rate is at 42% the zero tolerance policy which has been in place for approximately 30 years is increasingly called into [Music] [Music] question next we head to the state of Utah in the east of the US here Juvenile Justice has recently been the subject of a major reform the reform's main objectives are to
lower the prison population and to invest everything they can into Rehabilitation at the foot of the wasach mountain range lies the town of Ogden population 990,000 here we can find the juvenile detention center known as mil Creek we have been given special authoriz a to spend a few days here you [Music] you yeah 1 2 yeah Behind These fences there are approximately 60 teenagers aged between 12 and 20 they have been detained for serious crimes such as murder robbery and drug trafficking today they are playing a game of of American football against a team from
another prison this type of encounter is only possible in this part of the [Applause] country and it is thanks to the Juvenile Justice Reform designed by Susan Burke is a really different approach we have to start treating kids like kids and not like inmates if we talk it about kids as inmates then we're going to treat them like inmates if we talk about kids as young people here and giving them an opportunity to change and then our attitudes will change about how we treat them this is an ambitious Mission particularly since 90% of the inmates
are members of gangs and sometimes Rivals and unlike in other prisons these inmates are mixed meaning there is constant tension cuz I were just to fight a gy I told I knew it now Sha has been working in the prison environment for 15 years she knows that the other inmates quickly have to be separated to avoid trouble hey guys can you line up [Music] please in the gym 15-year-old JN has just punched another inmate he is here as a result of 67 counts of assault and the staff find it very difficult to control him it
takes six people to do so [Music] Shara is accustomed to these kinds of situations but this guard neither wears a uniform nor carries a weapon she sees herself more as an educator Ricky that wasn't Rick doing this N I don't want to see it I don't want to see it I don't want to see it shake my hand like that this is a the handshake we go like this though we go like this then like this then like she looks after approximately 15 teenagers in this unit what is the term that you're using a resident
it's a secure facility for kids secure I will not say prison among these kids is 17-year-old Jose he is a member of a gang he was sent here a week ago for kidnapping and violent robbery they wanted me to do adult time they wanted and if I would have stayed an adult I would have did 15 years to life so I fought I fought the charge telling them just take me juvenile so we went to agreement in this agreement there is a condition which hangs heavy over Jose's head if he gets into a fight with
another inmate he risks getting a life sentence in an adult Correctional Facility that's good but your mom's worried about that unless want here altercations between rival gang members are common hey you know me Salt Lake City on the map scraps you know us stop stop Shara intervenes to stop the situation from getting out of control for Jose he just disrespected his gang and so he walked away so they don't fight appro I know I know I know so that's my room Jose has a few rituals that help to Cal him down this right here this
is just like weekly like goals my goals are learn rules find find someone to trust and like staff wise find someone the trust and respect everybody I always respect everybody so I've been doing orientation since he only just arrived Jose is monitored 24/7 by this camera get first hearing and see if I'm not suicidal or stuff it's kind of weird you know cuz like it's right there you know and they're they could proba be watching you in his cell everything is secure these aren't glass these are metal but if it was glass would break and
so you're hurting yourself M and they don't want you to hurt yourself yeah they're that small um so we can't make knives out of them as in all prisons violence is a constant Factor we about right here all day all right come to Utah this is what you're going to get most of the inmates joined gangs at a very young age Jose joined the serenos when he was 13 and he didn't really have a choice in the matter my family is in all your family yeah my whole family sell drugs like do missions bus missions
missions is like what I'm in here for aggravated kidnapping robbery did you have to do that yes you get jumped 3 minutes straight like me I actually got jumped One Time by a whole bunch of my gang members because I told them that I was going to calm down I didn't like I was going to still bang I got my ribs broke my collar bone was broke my jaw was wired shut I had a couple of teeth knocked out um I had brain bleed in my head my kneecap busted with a baseball bat you can't
run away from it can't run away from it I mean when I get back out it's going to be the same thing and you have to do the same I'm going to try to be smarter and not get caught up you would have to go back into your game yeah kind of have to you have to you have to survive and do you want honestly no I'd rather be with my family these teenagers find themselves in an inescapable situation Kevin are you going to get a green on to help them get by the administration team
focuses on education 1 2 3 4 like all American teenagers these inmates go to class every day the classes are held inside the detention center right side guys for Jose's unit the morning begins with a biology lesson today's topic is [Music] DNA all organisms are made of cells and their teacher Mr Thompson has a few tricks to keep his students interested so your whole body is made of cells okay this is also why when the go to a crime scene and they want to collect DNA all they have to do is look for cells that
have fallen off the body of the culprit or the killer do me a now it is time for some practical exercises with toothpicks and glass slides in prison these utensils can be turned into weapons where does this go trash okay it goes in the trash throw them away don't try to steal them or take them okay make gets in the trash all right you know so whenever we use equipment whether it's glass or metal or even a toothpick you want to make sure you get everything back you know in your possession so the kids don't
take anything with them the teacher is assisted by Shara who has a very sharp eye I'm just constantly watching them at all times I actually check and they lift up their shirts a little bit to see if they have anything hiding in their pants these areus I check to make sure they don't have any penss on them so one two three four five I got six to encourage good behavior a point system is [Music] used this allows them to obtain certain benefits by getting more time to play outside or the chance to participate in some
of Marty's classes a therapist with a unique approach just no and thoughts like clouds and Sky whatever is happening in your environment from a place of peace and hopefulness and a place of respect good things are likely to happen aside from meditation Marty's most popular classes for the inmates are gym sessions little deeper I got you they all want an impressive build to look imposing and gain [Music] respect this is especially true for Chris the youngest among them he just turned 14 he is often teased he's a cutie because he's young yeah it's like an
innocent little kid you guys are looking for him getting toned is practically a means of survival watch out my chest you want to be smile yeah why strong beat people up this is not the therapist's goal he wants to teach them self-control most of them have histories of abuse and neglect in childhood abuse neglect abandonment which leads to kind of like problems in Behavior the practice is helping the kids learn that they can use their bodies as a way of kind of managing emotions and finding mental well-being thanks [Music] Marty this new approach for keeping
the young inmates disciplined seems promising that the reoffending raid in Utah has started to decrease but it remains to be seen whether this concept will spread to other States since for the last few years the United Nations has been denouncing the torture practices prevalent in American [Music] jails this is particularly evident in New York where juvenile are still forced into prolonged solitary confinement the Big Apple with its internationally famous symbol the Statue of Liberty it is hard to imagine that the second largest and most severe prison in the United States is so close by Riker's
Island Riker's Island has around 177,000 inmates including juveniles awaiting their sentences it is Behind These Walls that the life of 16-year-old CIF Browder turned upside down in 2010 his story shocked the country wrongly accused of stealing a backpack he spends 1,000 days at Riker's waiting for the Court ruling that will finally prove him innocent throughout his stay he is assaulted by his fellow inmates [Music] this footage shows a crowd of inmates beating him up his mistake refusing to join a gang like most of the other inmates so they assault him some guards tried to protect
him while others beat him for no [Music] reason [Music] for his own protection he is sent to solitary confinement otherwise known as the hole for 2 years he spends 23 hours of his day in a Cell the size of a parking space with almost no contact with the outside he tries to kill himself several times 16-year-old Khalif Browder was walking home from a party in the Bronx when he was stopped by the police and arrested for robbery after his release his story captivates the media's attention the country discovers the horrors of solitary confinement what they
do is they starve you they they won't feed you and it's already hard in there because if you get the three trades that you get every day you're still hungry because I guess that's part of the punishment so if they starve one trade that that that could really make an impact on you and how much were you starved I I was starved a lot I can't even I can't even count uh this happens every day and I feel like this got to stop because I feel like this there's a lot of people that's in there
for stuff that they didn't do the mayor of New York has promised to close Riker's Island within the next 10 years psychologically destroyed Khalif Browder killed himself 2 years after his release from prison in his memory a road in New York is named after him we were able to talk to a woman who worked at the heart of the system in the unit where Riker's Island's 500 solitary confinement cells are [Music] located her name is Mary Boer she worked there for 8 months as a psychiatric assistant and what she saw there traumatized her for life
if these people had no mental health issues before they entered solitary they do now often covered in blood from from gouging their arms from picking it veins on their body blood smeared walls people just banging their heads and banging and I would see bare skulls people with makeshift nooses people just babbling just gone incoherent uh some people people smeared in feces and it was very obviously disturbing to see human beings in this type of a state the consequences of solitary confinement are disastrous for mental health to put it bluntly it scrambles the brain people become
very depressed they start to have imaginary conversations with the walls with bugs on the walls um anxiety um great difficulty interacting with people when they've been in there for a while removed from reality um plunging despair people becoming suicidal it is very extreme today an increasing number of American states have restrictions on solitary confinement for juveniles but a third of them still use it Without Limits for the Young people who survived this hell returning to normal life is almost impossible north of Central Park lies the District of Harlem a large part of the population is
black this demographic is five times more at risk of being incarcerated than the white [Music] population Reginald and his cousin were born here this is hollow this is this might be the best neighborhood in the five burrows you know people like to dress not too much too much of that gangster stuff you know we don't do that over here we don't play that he never thought he would see Harlem again accused of murder at the age of 16 he spent six years at Riker half of which were in solitary confinement while he waited for his
sentence old man yeah I like this I like this I see you after being proven innocent he was released in February 2018 but he is struggling to readapt to life on the outside certain things out here can make me react to like I'm in a box you know I just can't get nervous I can't be around a lot of people shaking people hands and touching me I can't handle that it's creepy to me man you know the social life man because the boxer put me in there like I been so so you know so used
to being alone Reginald knows everyone in this neighborhood many of his friends have also spent time in the Box the nickname given to the isolation cell I'm 30 he been in his adolesent before too yeah I've been there since I was 18 he was there before me out of 10 years I was in the box for 4 years who growing up in a box gang bang you know you got to be mentally strong you're mentally strong you might kill yourself my lawyer did though it's old it's minutes just why a lot of people bug out
in the Box it's always like always a lot of hostility lot of aggress nobody want to beat it it's like a jail inside of the jail you don't supposed to go super crazy like local you lose your mind like you eating feces and stuff like that happens all the time I don't want nobody experienced that all those years spent in prison have scarred Reginal for life he has suffered both emotionally and [Music] physically which is evident from this scar on his face it was the result of a fight with another [Music] inmate come here all
the time did you ever play n i I used to play when I was young well I don't play no more because like I got pain in my legs and stuff from from being stagnant from not moving so being in a in a you know not getting exercise so I developed like a a gap spacing in my leg I had came out the box in the bang feel like something died of me I feel like my childhood my spirit died of me you know happiness out of me that's what I feel [Music] like today Reginald
is unemployed as with his physical disabilities it is very hard for him to find a job while he searches for work he lives here with his cousin in their family [Music] apartment like a third of the young people who have been in prison he suffers from depression the box of medicine on his shelf is always there to help him fall asleep but what worries him the most is the anger inside him that he says never Fades certain things that's not okay is okay you know to lash out beat to beat on a gate and thr
attention to act like animals is it's okay while you in there but when you get out you like yo I was just doing this this like I can't believe that was me I didn't want to be this person this aggressive person this you know this this sometimes hateful person you know sometimes I hate things for no reason man and I don't understand why I still feel 16 you know I don't feel like I'm a grown man you know so I was lost I'm lost I'm still lost like I never grew you didn't give me a
chance to grow my mind you know you can't put no kid in there you know you cannot put a kid in jail that's not right he's a he's a cat he's a a he's a he's a child um now he holds on to the hope of being awarded damages from the state of New [Music] York back to Utah the state which has reformed its Judiciary System in order to lower the number of incarcerated [Music] children a new program has just been introduced in this brand new building attached to the juvenile detention center kids in crisis
are sent here to avoid jail this form of preventative detention can be elected by parents the police or the social service Services 13-year-old Mike arrives with his family he immediately bursts into tears he did not know about his placement [Music] here facility sit down unsure of how to deal with his behavior Mike's mother and grandmother have chosen to send him to the secure Center he's out of getting out of control he's starting to set fir he's uh get he's real aggressive he's very angry tries to steal my cigarettes and he smokes in the house and
he puts him out on his mattress and we don't want him to end up in prison and further when he gets to be an adult because that's the direction he's heading in Mike will stay here for the maximum duration of 30 days so our program we have activities that if he wants to go to that we you know we would go to Archway and ask him if he wanted to go they're voluntary so we wouldn't force him into into doing them the rights and responsibility of our program tional regulation take rules take them okay I'll
go to DBT okay I just want to make sure he was still Mike has trouble breathing he is very worried about being separated from his family although he is old enough to be detained here he won't let go of his stuffed animals baby Mike has to take a personality test to determine his follow-up care on site have you done anything you wish you hadn't when you were drunk or high yeah have you felt like killing yourself and I answered yes what about mood swings um definitely okay and depression definitely okay breathing problems um does it
count if when I get angry I go like no cuz I think we covered that in the you have two animals Mike struggles with addiction and psychological problems but he completely understands what is going on it's mainly to help them understand whether or not I'm safe to be here or if I have to go to a more serious facility can you grab your bag yep let me open that oh yep he has already spent a few days in this facility so he knows his way [Music] around sure and then uh yeah there's um this is
a wooden bed because they don't want kids um what's it called having metal beds cuz they can take the springs and injure themselves and this is foam bed so kids can't use it to suffocate themselves just like with the pillow hello it's kind of like really small like a cell Mike's behavioral issues are linked among other things to his family situation his father is an addict and is currently homeless do you know why you are angry because my dad's not in my life very sad I'm not happy to be here but I think it'll help
are you afraid to go to a jail yeah honestly I am because I feel like I might get beaten up also you're not even allowed to have toothbrushes there because they can make shins out of them which is a knife these adolescents are here for problems linked to drugs abuse or [Music] violence no Mike has befriended 15-year-old Samantha she is here to get away from her mother who hits [Music] her how do you feel here what safe yes it's true what are you laughing at I feel like I'm caged yeah but it's a good kind
this is not a good kind of cage oh good point Mike has difficulties with other kids his age what Sean you don't have friends outside no cuz I'm a bad kid you really think so yeah no kid nobody wants to hang around somebody that smokes does drugs and stuff his struggle with addiction has little chance of improving due to the massive doses of medication he has to take every evening before bed it's the same routine like in prison lesie checks to make sure he hasn't hidden the pills in his mouth take cough yeah cough that
way what kind of medication do you take sleeping anxiety M depression and anger we take six at night and then he takes 4 in the morning that's a lot yeah in America besides being detained troubled teenagers are often treated with very strong medication that has numerous side effects does it help how do you know cuz I don't think it [Music] does even so he still asks for more types of medication I have no melatonin here there was no melatonin we can ask the N tomorrow I can't sleep without melatonin your room for a second melatonin
is a medication which can help people to fall [Music] asleep so Sean I talked to Mom okay and Mom said you're going to be fine without it tonight that's I can't sleep without it she said you'll be fine she but she'll be in tomorrow not going to sleep without I can't sleep just check him more often than we would cuz he's not happy and he could hurt himself for almost an hour Mike refuses to settle down he does not give in he wants melatonin right away hello I have no clue what I'm going through you're
right so be quiet feeling stuck lesie decides to call his mother these are not us M are you coming nice why the hell did you not bring them when it's your responsibility and your duty as a mother and a caraker to bring me my medicine you should feel guilty cuz you're the one who put me in here feel guilty Mike finally falls asleep without melatonin at around 11:00 p.m. he is still monitored by the Specialists from this program but from home he hopes never to have to return [Music] here cut off from their families and
disrupted in their schooling incarcerated adolescents are exposed to violence and Trauma that jeopardize their development and Scar them for life they return to Society lost and stigmatized often with no other Prospect than that of falling back into crime some
