article_snippet: Dressed in jumpsuits, hands in cuffs, or locked away in tiny cells, these are the youths held by America's juvenile justice system.
article_snippet: The emotional portraits, taken at three 'school' facilities around Washington state, show the inmates standing in prison corridors and resting in the inmates rooms - as well as others which simply try to show how the inmates are feeling.
article_snippet: All of the subjects have been locked away after sentencing in the state's juvenile courts, and are part of a project by Photographer Steve DavisPhotographer Steve Davis.
article_snippet: Incarcerated: The photo series shows inmates held in Washington state's juvenile prison system, such as the two men above .
article_snippet: One inmate is pictured above in One inmate room, which features a combination toilet-sink, which seemingly leaks .
article_snippet: Photographer Steve Davis visited three school-cum-prison facilities in the state, and photographed inmates and their surroundings .
article_snippet: Cuffed: These two prisoners have These two prisoners wrists and ankles bound in the uncompromising portrait above .
article_snippet: Davis, who took the photographs between 1997 and 2005, met the subjects through his work as a resident artist in three of Washington's detention centers, which double as schools.
highlights_snippet: Photographer Steve Davis spent years in Washington prison-schools taking photographs of inmates .
  