in prison, out of prison in juvie, out of juvie, since i was 15. doing this for 13 years now.he root cause of it every time i've ever been in trouble in my entire life is all so i can get high. every time i've ever done anything wrong, it's because i was getting high. >> lester stokes arrived at tulsa county on a charge of false impersonation. he was recently convicted and sentenced to six years. he's now awaiting transfer to prison. stokes has two prior prison stays, as well. the first for armed robbery and the second, possession of cocaine. his time in the oklahoma department of corrections or d.o.c. is memorialized in this tattoo work. >> bars says remember the numbers there on that clock are 480609. that's my d.o.c. number because time doesn't really matter in here. i got a "i hate cops" tattooed across my shoulder. >> it looks like an apostrophe. >> yeah, it does. >> you know that's a mistake. >> i know, we were really high and didn't think about it. little devil with a shotgun. anarchy sign. 88. >> and the 88 is for what? >> stands for heil hitler. >> you admire hitler?

and juvie must be awfully hard when your answer to the question, "what are you in for," is "stealingg." [ light laughter ] "looks like we got a pumpkin pie fan, boys." now, last summer, a government report found that private prisons actually posed higher security risks, were not cost-effective, and that disturbances in several federal contract prisons resulted in extensive property damage, bodily injury and the death of a correctional officer. and despite that, trump said we should have even more private prisons. and when asked about criminal justice reform in general, trump seemed to have no idea what he was talking about. >> as you know, our prison system is a disaster. it's a complete disaster, all over the country. almost everything we have, chris, if you want to know the truth, is a disaster. >> really? >> seth: trump uses the word "disaster" more than a bitchy interior decorator. [ light laughter ] "this sofa is a disaster. and the wall paper? disaster." but trump did follow through on his private prison promises. >> this year, the trump administration reversed the decision to

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with a snip of the scissors, you again, you have two choices, my man, they really want to put you in juvy. i have to put you in somewhere and just like that, lefty was a mari marine. [applause]. >> guest: inventory . >> host: that's good, thank you. >> i have to talk about the research because it's a considerable undertaking. how do you map-- first of all, how did the experience on blackhawk down, among others, prepare you for, kind of hey, how do i map out. who am i going to talk to about this that we haven't heard before? >> it benefitted, i think, having written blackhawk down, with the realization, you don't have to understand the thing you're writing about before you start. you just need to dive in. and you begin talking to one person after another, after another, and over a period of time, you begin to form a kind of mental mosaic that's the story that you want to write. at a certain point, when you have the shape of the story, or in this case of the battle, in your mind, now you can begin directing your efforts towards the kind of people you have not yet spoken to, you recognize, f

. >> so you're here in juvy court, you're sitting here before the judge. get in. >> more probation and a week or two in jail. >> if shakespeare were aliving he'd most destinily end up in court. >> he began sentencing them to the bar 17 years ago because he saw the playwright as an outsider. >> shakespeare was a tyrant. he was always against way people were doing things. >> not everyone was sold. >> we think they're coddling them whether they're going away. if we don't help them get some new skills, they're going to continue on to a life of crime. >> i've got adhd and bipolar depression. so it's like the more i have to do, learned linesing i don't gets a depressed. >> here teen gross to relate to one another. >> if one of us are down, we help each other out. >> and help each other find patience to stop, breathe, and then act. hope is after six weeks of playing the part something sticks. and on this night in flonlt of family, friends, and parole officers, all the world a stage. 350 kids have been sentenced to the stage. this is no walk in the park for them.