Jack Lawrence

As you're let in through doors and gates, they lock behind you.

And you're hit by an incredible wall of sound.

The sound of prisoners banging on cell doors, screaming obscenities.

and all glaring at you.

Junior, standing at just five foot tall, looking like he could pass for a 12-year-old, is quite literally going into the lion's den.

So Junior is relatively, for want of a better term, safe for now in what would be his new home.

The gang, as he says, takes him under their wing and treats him more like a younger brother or a son, making sure that no one preys on him.

Until one day, a law is passed and he's on the move.

Sadly, Junior is by no means an unusual case.

As he mentions, the US has a tough stance on juveniles who commit crimes.

In fact, we know that the United States leads the industrialised world in the number and percentage of children it locks up in juvenile detention facilities, with over 60,000 children in such facilities in 2011.

The US also sends an extraordinary number of these children, just like Junior, to adult jails and prisons.

In fact...

In 2011, more than 95,000.

Yet again, Junior would find himself in a new segregated section with the rest of the juveniles that were being bussed in from around the county until once more, they're on the move again to yet another facility in segregation until they hit 18.

And there's no way you can't turn around and say, I'm not associated with this gang anymore because then you become a target again anyway.

So we're going to take a short break, and when we come back, Junior talks us through breaking away from the gang and becoming a target.

One thing people say when listening to Junior speak in these episodes is how astounded they are by how calm he is about his situation.

Well, he wasn't always that way.

And in fact, at one point became extremely angry about his situation and started to lash out.