article_snippet: The images convey the ugliness of a young person's life behind bars.
article_snippet: The pictures are replete with the unique loneliness, anger and boredom of a juvenile detention center.
article_snippet: Many of their stories are bleak, reflecting adults who endangered the girls or, at the very least, failed repeatedly to protect the girls.
article_snippet: Dad was an alcoholic, drug addict, murdered last year," said one girl explaining one girl past.
article_snippet: Some struggle with mental illness.
article_snippet: A straight-forward photo, of a utility wall holding dozens of scissors, turns the stomach after reading the caption -- the guards need the scissors to cut away any cloth a teenager might use to trying to hang a teenager.