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Gabriel, 15, is checked by a guard while he sleeps. The boy took 10 Rohypnol pills (a potent tranquilizer) and boarded the bus to school. Stoked by the drugs, an argument with another kid turned ugly. When he arrived in Juvenile--his fifth time…

Rene, age 15, in a detention cell after three days of sniffing carburator fluid. With nowhere else to detox, he ended up in Juvenile. Rene is, in fact, a familiar face at Juvenile. But don't ask him for details. The drugs have taken their toll.

In an isolation cell, detention officer Leo De la Garza searches for a sharp object, which he feared Rene, 15, might use to kill himself.

The nightmare that is detox. Gabriel, 15-years-old detoxing
from an overdose of pills in the Webb County Juvenile Detention
Center. The first three days of withdrawal from drugs are a
living nightmare: The user experiences deep anxiety and
physical…

How I got here? I don't remember, sir. 15-year-old Gabriel, restrained while he detoxes from an overdose of Rohypnol pills (a potent tranquilizer) in a cell at Webb County Juvenile Detention.

15-year-old Gabriel, restrained while he detoxes in a cell at Webb County Juvenile Detention. No doctor, no bed, no hydration, no one to take his vital signs or comfort him--it's a dangerous and cruel situation that's replicated in underresourced…

14-year-old jose, who was arrested as a runaway but who has multiple warrants outstanding for a variety of offenses, is taken down in his cell at the Webb County Juvenile Detention Center. Jose was being restrained for refusing to calm down when…

Rene, age 15, in a detention cell after three days of sniffing carburator fluid. With nowhere else to detox in Laredo, he ended up in Juvenile.

Jose, 14, who was booked as a runaway, sits in his cell with his hands an feet shackled after he refused to calm down when ordered by detention staff.

Even after more than a dozen trips to Juvenile, it doesn't get any easier for Kris, 14. He doesn't know exactly what he did to end up here this time. He needs rehab, but that's not what he's getting. Instead, Kris is getting a tour of the juvenile…