. >> lieutenant gary burke supervises the segregation unit at pendleton.when an inmate acts out in general population, he's moved to seg for the safety of offenders and staff. most kids who come here are still a long way from rehabilitation and their defiance can cause added pressure for officers. >> the challenge is bring your "a" game when you come to work. bring your "a" game. >> brown, come on up. >> they look for the immediate satisfaction of lashing out and then suffer the consequences later, but they never think about that until afterwards, of course. i have to tell them all of the time, this is fast. just sit on your hands, keep your mouth quiet, keep your mouth shut and let it pass. and sometimes it gets through to them, sometimes it doesn't. >> [ bleep ]. >> i don't want the whole situation to escalate. it doesn't have to. no, it does not. >> there ain't no other choice. >> after three years behind bars, this troubled teen has ç landed in seg more than once. his appetite for mayhem and attention is a continuous struggle for staff, but now the si

. ♪ [ continues ] [ gasping ] >>> in the unpredictable confines of pendleton's juvenile segregation unitlways be prepared for violence. 19-year-old ulysses sanders isn't shy about the demons that brought him here. >> locked up four years. beat up my mama's boyfriend and i took his money. >> sanders says his uncontrollable anger comes on without warning. he hopes school and counseling at pendleton will quiet his rage. two years ago, before the facility made major changes in programs in security, sanders was part of this attack on staff. >> we was all in the room. and then one of the offenders came up for a shower. that was all before it was all locked down like this. and he ran over here. he grabbed the key from the officer. and ran back to the other side. and started opening doors. >> door violation. door violation. door violation. >> that's when it all went out of control. >> door violation. door violation. >> he came out of the room, started throwing buckets. and some people had mop sticks. throwing mop sticks at staff. battered officers. damaged stuff. i don't know. it just built up.

. >> while the review committee considers his release from pendleton, in the segregation unit, 18-year-old marcus branch is facing the possibility of spending several more years behind bars. >> i'll probably end up going to court from here. they said i could face 20 years in prison for what i did. what happened was, this staff member was kind of big and stuff like that. he always talked like crazy to me. i forget what he said, but basically, i was like, you know, [ bleep ] your family. he said [ bleep ] your family. i don't know, i always wanted to fight him. but, i got like swinging on him and stuff. i thought he was going to swing back, but he didn't. i kept on swinging on him. >> most of the offenders here are very loud. put themselves out there and they try to act really rough and tough and try to sound it. he's really quiet and can snap in a moment. >> hit the ground. i was thinking i'll show him mercy. so i left him ilnne. >> we talked about that with the staff a lot. i call it a kind of total awareness thing that they have to constantly pay attention to everything that's going on at