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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.

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…