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I'm 16 years old and I have nothing to be proud of. I have all this pride inside of me, yet I look back and I have nothing to be proud of. A portrait of Ivan, a 16-year-old inmate at Webb County Juvenile Detention Center.

Zulema,5, making her fourth visit to Webb County Juvenile Detention, wanted to escape from a world filled with problems. She thought her knife was her ticket out. First, she turned to pills. Then came marijuana and now crack cocaine.

Gabriel, 15, talks with his mother after a Laredo juvenile judge cancelled his court appearance at the last minute. Probation officers told the judge that he was too rowdy to appear in court.

Probation officer Adam Rodriguez watches as one of the twins, 14-year-old Jose Luis, visits with his mother after being sentenced in court to a long term at the Texas Youth Commission for stealing a truck.

In Portland, Oregon three young inmates are led to a tiny cage-like compartment in the back of juvenile truck where they wil remain handcuffed during a 45 minute ride to the county courthouse.

Fourteen-year-old twins Jose Luis and Jose Eduardo, shown making the once-weekly call they are allowed to their parents, lost their dad when he was arrested for selling drugs. After that, the brothers filled the void with a steady string of petty…

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.