. >> 30 miles south of chicago lake county superior judge judge bonaventure presides over a docket, 3200 cases in 2008 alone. it's her job to make sure the kids that come to this detention center leave here and forget that there's each an option of graduating to the adult prison system. >> i think some children are just born into a situation that is a bad one, and in some neighborhoods it's almost like do unto others before they do it to you. so for those of us that aren't raised in those types of neighborhoods it is difficult to understand. sometimes it's survival, but they get out there and they have to perpetrate before they're perpetrated against. >> for years msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories that unfold in america's juvenile justice system. with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we're about to go inside a world where cameras are, by law, forbidden to go. >> you guys can't watch video. >> they've been doing this over a three-month period. two of them ran sacked the cars they broke in. two of them were on a street corner watching that the police won't c

i'm going home. >> it has been 21 days since judge bonaventure ral decided to keep morris detained atunty juvenile while the pro basing departments and court determine what is best for him. >> today he goes back to learn his fate. >> i will talk to the judge right now, i'll tell you, i'm trying to do better. i know i got a problem. if you send me home and trust me, i'm going to show you -- >> morris, you remember some time back, we went through a detention hearing where you talked about your background, your history and what you wanted to have happen, correct. >> yes. >> we're not going to go through all of that for today's hearing. all i want to know is what you've learned since you've been locked up. >> since i've been detained i learned how to control my anger. i would like to go home with my family. >> can the court and can your mother believe you right now when you're saying that. >> yes, and my father. >> can you look them in the eye and tell them that that you're going to fully comply with everything. >> i'm going to do better. i'm trying to my life. i got a problem. i admit it

therefore, judge bonaventure is out of options when it it comes to rehabilitation. him go if she feels he is not a threat to himself or the community or she might waive him to the adult justice system. >> i think listening to your description of him sitting next to you and him being bigger than you strikes a cord with me and it's really sad. here is a young man who has sort of grown up in our system. by some people's opinions it it might be that he has failed because he left the program before he was supposed to, but that isn't going to make me give up on children, and that's up until a few weeks ago is what he was, he was a child and just because you reach that magical age does not make you an adult. it's what you do after that in your life that makes you a grown up and a man and adult. there are a lot of bumpses in the road of life and hopefully you'll get over those bumps because we're not going to be here to hold your hand anymore. you will have to do that by yourself. so good luck to you, mr. paisano. i hope you get your life turned around and this will be the

will go into court with a team on his side but his long record will also speak loudly to judge bonaventureetention hearing. the judge is going to look at if there's probable cause to believe you committed the act of possession and the act of resisting. i feel like i've been working so hard but like and this is the first downfall i had since i been home. >> i know. >> i don't want to mess up everything that i've been trying to accomplish. because you know i've been doing too good, miss sarah even from school to being outside. >> and you're the one that said to me, remember what you said to me. >> you'd be on probation. it's going to help me out. that's what we did, right. >> but the biggest thing that he's done that the judge is going to commend him on is removal of his gang tattoos. >> yeah, he covered it up. >> so that's an admission he's turning his life around, he doesn't want the gang style anymore, doesn't want the gang life. that was a lot to give up, his respect, his authority, his position within the gang. that's all gone. >> it's just i was at the wrong place at the wrong time. po

. >> 30 miles south of chicago, lake superior judge mary beth bonaventure presides over a numbing juvenile docket. 3,200 cases in 2008 alone. it's her job to make sure the kids at this detention center and court complex leave here and forget that there's even an option of graduating to the adult prison system. >> i think some children are just born special a situation that is a bad one. in some neighborhood, it's almost like do unto others before i do it to you. for those of us that weren't raised in those neighborhoods, it is difficult to understand. sometimes it's survival that they get out there and have to perpetrate before they're perpetrated against. >> for years, more than has been documenting the -- msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories that unfold in america's juvenile justice system. with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we're about to go inside a world where cameras by law are forbidden to go. >> you guys are the world's dumbest crooks -- >> 40 vehicles we counted altogether. and they've been doing this over a three-montonth period. two ransacked the