seeing freedom. i understand. aaron s detention center escapade wasn t the first time he plotted an escape. a few years back he made a bold and daring run for it when he bolted out of his hospital room window where he was being treated for stab wounds. getting stabbed by who? it was a while ago. a long time ago? yeah. i was liking this girl and she was liking me, but she had a boyfriend and he cut me like six times. right here on my forehead and on my chin, on my arm. the police was like, yeah, we re taking you to jail. i was like, what? i m the victim. i m like, man, i m not going to jail. so i tied a couple of sheets together and climbed out the window. but right now escape isn t what on aaron s mind. going to adult jail is. trying to send me across the street and deal with my cases, charge me as an adult because they say i ve been taking too many cars and i m a menace to society and i belong behind bars. i think i have a decision-making problem. that s what i think
but for aaron, becoming an adult could mean the end of his. with a long history of juvenile arrests, aaron is now a prime candidate to be waived to adult court. the one bright spot in aaron s life is a visit from his mother. happy belated birthday. did you enjoy your birthday in jail? no, i did not enjoy my birthday. now that aaron is 18, the court is deciding whether to deal with him as a juvenile or waive him to adult jail, which happens to be conveniently located across the street. if you do go across the street, i want you to build knowledge. you ain t going across the street for nothing. you re going across the street to improve yourself and become more than being across the street. you hear me? i ain t going there, though. this should be the end of my i hope not, because you re very immature. you ve been very immature. a long time in life. you re like a kid that don t want to grow up. you just don t be hearing me. i do be hearing. you just you just want to jus
this time, because i know the seriousness of my situation. i think i learned. i feel i m going to pray tonight and hopefully god gives me this chance to get out maybe on one of those little house arrest things. then i can work my way from there. i know i can. with less than 12 hours to go before court, the kids at lake county juvenile invent their own ways to relieve the stress. i hope i go home the night before court is never an easy one. tomorrow aaron and ayryana will both go before the judge. ayryana, who is already on probation, risks being placed in girls school. but aaron faces the toughest punishment the juvenile courts can dole out. being waived across the street to the adult jail.
the juvenile court wing. no talking in the hallway. on the judge s docket, today, two very different but equally heavy hearings. the case of two young brothers who have been in detention over and over but still could face years in the juvenile system. and then there s devon who at 18 will stand in the judge s courtroom one last time. if he gets locked up again it will be in adult jail. i wish i could just go back to when i was 10 years old. with the knowledge i have now, i could anywhere if i hadn t started messing around with the drugs. you think your kids will come home with you today? i want them to come home. but it s for the best. i said no. i can t do that. i can t let you in the house. then i find out he was shot.
hospital. they ran my name at the hospital and they still had my warrant from running from placement. ricky has been locked up at lcjc for more than a month this time. at his court hearing tomorrow he will learn his fate in the juvenile system. even though he is 18, the judge can still keep him detained for not completing his juvenile detainment or she could waive him across the street to the adult jail. i ve already been to adult prison. i ve been there and seen it at 17 years old. i ve been with people locked up for a 15, down for murder. all that stuff. i ve been there. i ve seen everything. i see what it s like. i don t want to be like that. you know, tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day because i really this is one that i really can t even tell you that i have a gut feeling for. it s going to be interesting. because the judge is going to be a little limited in what she s going to be able to do with him. frankly, i really don t know. i m kind of anxious to see tha