>>> abel villegas came face to face with superintendent mike dempsey and the pendleton release committee was ready to go home. >> you need to be truly committed to do away with those gang affiliations that you have. i don't believe that you're anywhere near that. >> unfortunately for him, though, they weren't convinced. >> when it comes to looking at harm you caused to others and your victims, it seriously concerns me. >> it's like parole board for juveniles, and so it's a high stakes process where the juvenile offender has to convince the board thatter ready to go back into society. that they've completed their program and that they've learned something that they can use when they leave. >> they have absolutely no empathy in regards to them that i can detect. even in the most minute trace, there isn't any. >> and as you saw, as we went through that, there were some concerns. >> back in his unit villegas contemplates another month at pendleton. >> it makes you miss your family a lot and you just -- you don't have that much freedom in here. you always -- you have people telling you when t

and i would suggest counseling, therapy, and programs to help him. >> mike dempsey has other reasons wanting to keep paul in the juvenile system. >> the fact is, you can't put a 12-year-old child in that type of environment and expect them to have have a chance. you just can't do it and i think some of the offenders who sincerely want to do the right thing and help, yet there's a lot of predators that will eat the weakness up. they can get into terrible trouble very quickly. life and danger kind of trouble. >> it's different than what i always thought it would be. i wasn't expecting the razor wire. it sucks. you don't want to come here. >> there's a lot of hurt feelings dealing with these cases. i understand people out there are angry and they are hurt. somebody needs to pay for that. but not just one person. they don't need to throw this kid away either. kids don't just wake up one day and say, i'm going to kill somebody. >> a lot of people may think that this is a good place for them and lock them up and throw away the key but it's just not that simple. >> miles folsom learned how

according to superintendent mike dempsey, jacob has no one or no place to take him in. >> it could belated to there being no parent, to there being no guardian, no relative that is willing to take the offender in. it could be that they've exhausted all of the other community placement treatment programs that were out there, and we're having to dig and try to find as best we can somebody else to take him. >> in his final comments about what he sees for his future, jacob reveals one last wrenching detail about the life he left behind. >> normal, good life for me? going back to school so i could finish my high school diploma, take care of my little girl, get married to my girl's mama. take care of them. pretty much normal. ♪

. >> superintendent mike dempsey is in charge of keeping staff safe while rehabilitating and educating even the most the challenging teen offenders. >> juveniles are much more challenges and frustrating on a daily basis. >> when i walk away, that's it. so you choose for me to walk away? okay. >> they have a thought or an emotion and they will act on it immediately. and most times you can't, you don't ever see it coming. >> after he refused to come to the door and cuff up so we could get him out, we had to gather together an extraction team to get into his room so he wouldn't hurt himself. >> are you ready to cuff up? no. >> this generation of juveniles, they're a lot more reckless. they're probably ten times more reckless than an adult offender. they explode. they have their aggression moments. they're fighting and it's over. and then they -- they'll even apologize. all within a three-minute period. >> while cell extractions at pendleton are rare the procedure is used in extreme circumstances to guarantee the safety of offenders and staff. >> everybody's in good shape. nobody's hurt. >

>> with school and counseling mandatory, superintendent mike dempsey also helps to give juvenile offenderson other than crime once they're released. >> we've been working on a program called future soldier program. essentially what it would do, it would identify offenders in our population who would qualify to be a future soldier. the idea is to be able to release them directly from the facility into the military service without there being any delay, without there being any community transition delay in place. >> patience is key for staff in order to turn troubled kids around. >> we had, for example, a couple offenders a while back, they would act like they was committing suicide and everything else. we went in on them and they're really not committing suicide, they're trying to hurt staff. you don't want to see it, but it does happen. >> the individuals who choose to work here and who stay, who stick it out through the difficult times of working with the adolescents are people that i say, if they can do this job, they can do any job. because this job will challenge everything about you.