kenneth or kentrell? >> brothers kenneth and kentrell hail from the streets of gary, indiana. birthplace of the jackson 5 and two-time murder capital of the world. nearly 2% of kids in gary live below the poverty level. more than twice the national average. >> i need to know if there's a chance you might not go home on monday. >> why? >> because you're currently on probation, you have an open complaint. >> i didn't do anything. >> that may be the case. as far as it goes the judge will make a decision as to whether or not you go home. there's a good chance. you need to know that. >> many times intake department staff see the same faces over and over again, despite kids' previous promises they'll never return to the system. >> this is your sixth complaint -- no, actually this will be your seventh complaint. you just left here. and that is, what? two weeks later and you're here. he has, like, a quiet reserve about him. and for somebody that has like a history like that, like his disposition -- doesn't add up. i'm looking at your history here and i see you first got arrested when you were 11 years old. his dad is incarcerated for dealing crack, he said. and then a month later you were arrested for mischief, battery, consumption, intimidation, robbery and theft. mom -- it's ten kids. it's a large family. five have been here. so that tells me he has seen a lot. there's more to the story. allen did the intake on your brother. he's telling me you accidentally shot him in the stomach last year. >> that's when i was 11. >> that's when you were 11 that you accidentally did that? wow. >> that's when i first got into the juvenile system. >> oh. you still think about that? >> always. >> go ahead and walk on the right side of the hallway. >> i hope he get out. he don't know how this is. he ain't never been in a situation like this where he had to come here and do no days in here. he don't know how to react in here. he don't know what to do and consequences and stuff if you do something bad in here. >> read these rules. his brother is here as well. i'm not sure where i'm going to put him at. >> still a little kid. he don't need to be in here. >> going to squat down and cough twice. just like that. squat down. cough twice. all right. one more. you got to cough twice. >> i got to make sure he's separated, though. i can't put him over there with his brother. >> put his brother in the lower side. >> we want to keep them separated so that when court comes they can't get their stories to match. they can't lie. that's why we keep them separated. so he won't see his brother until his court date. >> to paint a richer picture of lake county, indiana, and its juvenile delinquency population you have to head to the blue collar town of hobart. the median household income may be twice that of neighboring gary but juvenile crime does not discriminate. >> he had a bench warrant. he failed to appear in court. he had a criminal mischief and two counts of violation of probation. his mother was present. his probation officer was present. but he was not, so -- >> i was walking down the street. i had a bench warrant for not appearing at court and a cop knew me by face and just turned around and picked me up. >> the nurse said you can have an extra blanket to roll up to keep your arm up, okay, while you're in your room. he just told me when i asked what had happened to his arm that he was robbing a drug dealer and he stated that he was trying to be good to keep the drugs off the street. >> well, i have a reputation as a drug dealer, a gang member, just a bad kid. when i'm 18, these will just be dropped, won't they? >> no. >> they won't? >> no. it's up to the judge. but he didn't come to the court thinking i'm going to turn 18, everything is going to be dropped. that's the misconception the juveniles they have. they think once they're 18 everything goes away. that's not the truth. you're not really behaving yourself right now. >> yeah, i am. i haven't gotten in no trouble in a couple months. >> besides this. >> i ran away from home when i was 17. just wasn't talking to my mom, wasn't getting along real well. and so i didn't go to the court date because i wasn't at home. >> tell me exactly what happened to your arm. >> one of my boys told me that a drug dealer was trying to get rid of his lady. so i had his lady set him up. i was going to rob him and take his weed. >> how did you have the lady set him up? >> because he was trying to get with her. so then she called him over and said that her boy wanted some weed. when she gave him a hug i just started hitting [ bleep ]. then he pulled -- >> hitting him with what? 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>> because i feel like it. >> why are you so into it? >> i'm not. i'm playing with the orange piece of thread. >> so if you do get out, what are we going to do? >> well, it's not like i'm going to be in here forever. i'm getting out soon. >> then you will go back to school shortly after that. >> i told you, i'm not going to highland. i told you, the one school i will not go to is highland. >> that's the one school district we live in. >> so -- >> again, there's no alternative. >> yeah, there is. i'll go to any alternative school. i just don't want to go to highland. i hate everyone in it. >> i am telling you that that is the option. >> i'm telling you if i go back to that school i'm definitely going to violate my probation. >> what is that supposed to mean? >> don't worried about it. >> no, i am worried about it. what is that supposed to mean? >> don't worry about it. >> [inaudible]. >> that's stupid. you're blackmailing me. i know you're not going to do it. >> i'm not blackmailing you. >> you're not going to do it. that's stupid, mom. >> you being here isn't? >> not really. >> juvenile courts are set up to allow kids to do certain things in their life that they later don't have to have held against them. like making a mistake for the first time. okay, let's shake it off and move on. that's hopefully what juvenile court does for kids who have a harder time figuring out what the right path is. >> i can't stop getting behind the wheel. i was walking down the street. i seen somebody had left the keys in the ignition. i took that car, too. >> people who's in the places like this, ain't just bad kids. they just make bad choices at that time. >> i've been in two high-speed chases. three, four. >> we do something bad because we just get bored. because ain't got no type of activities. no, like, clubs, no fun centers or nothing out here. people they just trying to have fun. even though it's breaking the law, but they think of it as having fun. >> how many of you guys are ready to make a change in your life today? i want you to raise your hand and i want you to hold it there for a minute. >> every day i think about how i'm going to survive when i go outside. because i'm going to be able to come back home peacefully. >> you know what, the minute you show up at someone's house and someone pops a cold brew in your face, what are you going to do? exactly. we got one honest person in here. >> i just need to be in a different environment, less violence happening. less bad activities going on in the neighborhood. that's where i think i need to be. >> i acknowledge, lord -- >> i acknowledge, lord -- >> that you've done everything for me -- >> that you've done everything for me -- >> by dying on the cross -- >> by dying on the cross -- >> by raising from the dead -- >> been through so many of these court dates. i don't know. i mean, right now in my head it's a 50/50. detained or released. i mean, you think about it, a judge, you have this prosecutor. that's a lot of big people to go against when you're just by yourself. you sleep in here you always think about what's going to happen in court. like, what they going to say, what they going to do to you, if they going to detain you or if they going to release you. i can't be doing this. i'm 18 years old. i've got a lot of years to live. and if i keep messing around with this i'm going to end up dead or in jail. >> i know, kenneth, that you want to leave. i would like to give you a break here. in light of this is your sixth referral to this court, four in the year of 2008. can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. 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