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A guard speaking with an agitated young inmate in Portland, Oregon.

Veteran Detention officer Leo De la Garza with a 10-year-old inmate at the Webb County juvenile Detention Center. Leo adapts his approach to the child and the situation; sometimes he can be a strict disciplinarian, more often he's patient and…

In Portland, OR a 14-year-old boy sits alone in his cell in his cell, consumed by anger and lonliness.

Happy drawings by a young inmate on an observation cell window in Portland, Oregon.

For security reasons the lights never go out at the facility in Portland, OR, even after 'lights out'. Young inmates find it very hard to get any rest at all.

An 11-year-old newcomer meets an older inmate at Webb County Juvenile Detention in Laredo, Texas.

A young inmate gets a high-volume lesson in the facts of life in a juvenile detention facility--here in Laredo, Texas--from a drill instructor.

An 11-year-old who was referredc to juvenile detention for fighting is ordered to walk on the edge of the corridor by a drill sergeant at Webb County Juvenile detention.

15-year-old Gabriel, angry and restrained while he detoxes from a pill overdose in a cell at Webb County Juvenile Detention.

Rene, age 15, in a detention cell after three days of sniffing carburator fluid. With nowhere else to detox, he ended up in Juvenile. Doctors suspect that he has brain damage, probably because of drug use.