14-Year-Old with Special Needs Trapped in Maximum Security Prison

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  • Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
  • At just 14 years old, Justin was imprisoned in a maximum-security juvenile facility, a place meant for the most violent young offenders. But Justin wasn’t like the others. With an IQ of 40 and a background of severe neglect and abuse, he found himself locked away in a system that didn't know how to care for him. This documentary follows Justin's heart-wrenching journey through the juvenile justice system, where he was abandoned by family, misunderstood by society, and left to navigate an adult world that wasn't built for him.
    For years, Justin struggled behind bars, facing daily challenges that no child should ever endure. Despite his disabilities and traumatic past, he found support from a few caring individuals who saw him not as a criminal, but as a boy in desperate need of love and guidance. This is the story of how those people changed his life, helping him find a way out of the system and into a better future.
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  • @larrybarnhill572
    @larrybarnhill572 Годину тому +6

    Those caregivers are seriously next level. Respect

  • @JS-ue5fp
    @JS-ue5fp 2 години тому +11

    This is so heartbreaking.

  • @juliusnovachrono4370
    @juliusnovachrono4370 2 години тому +7

    This is genuinely heartbreaking to see, especially as someone with special needs. Its just inhumane.

  • @lovethyneibor22736
    @lovethyneibor22736 2 години тому +29

    This world isn't fit to bring kids into 💔

    • @jenemac
      @jenemac 2 години тому +4

      I'm thinking his parents weren't fit to bring children into this world. Either way, it's sad and just plain wrong.

    • @sandienesta1467
      @sandienesta1467 Годину тому

      i feel this way too and no abortions, bad parents, bad schools and corrupt everything..

    • @eyonkastewart7631
      @eyonkastewart7631 45 хвилин тому

      @@lovethyneibor22736 wish I can hit the like button 1,000 times!

    • @jamesclark5093
      @jamesclark5093 9 хвилин тому

      It can be if we start living like God is in us

  • @janefinley-english1051
    @janefinley-english1051 Годину тому +2

    I am thrilled that much work has been done to remedy this situation. It will take years to find all the answers, but God bless each person that endeavored to help Justin & the system. Videos like these help the public understand the extent of this dilemma. Thank you & God bless. 💙🙏🏽

  • @lreavis2
    @lreavis2 53 хвилини тому +1

    I commend Mel for giving Justin the family he always deserved.

  • @Justme-we6tv
    @Justme-we6tv 41 хвилина тому +4

    What is the iq of the people who placed this kid in PRISON?

  • @PamMerriman-p1z
    @PamMerriman-p1z Годину тому

    What a sweet and kind young man , breaks my heart his family wont reach out to anyone about their son. Parents are suppose to love and protect their child. Hes doing so good in his life and i hope it just gets better for him, Justin im so PROUD of you ....❤

  • @julianokleby1448
    @julianokleby1448 Годину тому +1

    This just tears my heart out and rips it into a million pieces! How tragic right up until the last couple of minutes. Justin and his new dad are so cute together, matching facial hair and all! How could anyone not just love his innocence and inner sweetness? His birth parents really missed out on a one of a kind treasure. They didn't deserve him. And to know that their whole story was made up because they didn't want to raise him angers me to my core! No child deserves to be treated that way. I don't care who you are. Prison was the exact wrong place to put him. So glad he found a real man he can call Dad!!

  • @lovesallanimals9948
    @lovesallanimals9948 Годину тому +4

    The fact anyone can have kids is scary a good percentage of people should not have kiss 😢

  • @chrisblair218
    @chrisblair218 Годину тому +1

    I remember seeing the very first story about this young man a few years ago and it breaks my heart to pieces

  • @robynhayward
    @robynhayward 20 хвилин тому

    What a rollercoaster this one was, my goodness.

  • @dionea97
    @dionea97 50 хвилин тому +1

    51:19 This part destroyed me.

  • @doodydoesitddi5717
    @doodydoesitddi5717 Годину тому +1

    This is heartbreaking. The system is broken

  • @saschakolb7102
    @saschakolb7102 2 години тому +5

    As far as I know it is a human rights violation to imprison persons with special needs in a prison and especially with criminals.

  • @KaylaNcube-f2p
    @KaylaNcube-f2p 2 години тому +2

    “I don’t get to be locked up” ts so sad

  • @TonyDelgado-jt9pc
    @TonyDelgado-jt9pc Годину тому +1

    SICKENING 😢

  • @texasrose2315
    @texasrose2315 2 години тому +2

    This is so wrong, Justin doesn’t belong in prison! Awful

    • @elmolewis9123
      @elmolewis9123 2 години тому

      Would you take him in?

    • @lovesallanimals9948
      @lovesallanimals9948 Годину тому

      ​@elmolewis9123 why do you go there? Is it to start an argument or come back with something sarcastic?😮

  • @cindihillis7047
    @cindihillis7047 35 хвилин тому

    Very kind counclers❤

  • @LindsayW138
    @LindsayW138 2 години тому +5

    I'm at 7:42 and I'm going to have to stop watching because important words are being left out which are necessary to understand what's happening. What happened to Justin's grandparents? I don't know, you left those words out. What happened to Justin when he was a young child? I don't know, you left those words out. What crime did Justin do to end up behind bars? I don't know, you left those words out.

    • @carolinebjerkelund767
      @carolinebjerkelund767 Годину тому +3

      I am with you on your view of this

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому +2

      @carolinebjerkelund767 exactly! Like what is the point of uploading a video when it's censored like this?

    • @TootTootUSA
      @TootTootUSA Годину тому

      I'm not the greatest at lip reading, but it looks like he was sexually abused when he was five and then arrested for child molestation later. Going back to the grandparents bit he starts saying "grandparents committed s" and then it cuts off so I'm assuming they were the ones that sexually assaulted him when he was five.

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому

      @@TootTootUSA if only there were some way this information could've been shared within the video itself. Maybe using audio? If only!

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому +1

      @TootTootUSA It's impossible to truly understand what's happening if I'm going off of speculation instead of facts. So I'm not sure why this video has chosen to leave out the most important pieces of information relating to Justin's incarceration.

  • @sassymama485
    @sassymama485 2 години тому +2

    They need to reopen the state hospitals for people who need it

    • @TootTootUSA
      @TootTootUSA Годину тому

      Unfortunately one side of the political spectrum shut them down and decades later and has absolutely zero compassion towards anyone other than themselves because providing tax funded serviced to our people is "WOKE DEI SOCIALISM".
      Vote for people that push for more funding into public services and vote against pro billionaire antisocial weirdos.

    • @lovesallanimals9948
      @lovesallanimals9948 Годину тому

      Not all of them there where a lot that were very bad places😢

    • @lreavis2
      @lreavis2 Годину тому +1

      The state hospitals were replaced by group homes so those with developmental disabilities can be part of the community while receiving the support they need. A lot of the state hospitals were traumatizing for people with disabilities. Staff was overwhelmed, abusive, and corrupt. There are a lot of documentaries about state hospitals that are way more disturbing than this one. People who were formerly in state hospitals have spoke out about the horrible conditions and lack of sanitation, s-assualt in exchange for candy bars, staff coercing patients to assault each other, etc. Group homes are a much better alternative.

  • @doodydoesitddi5717
    @doodydoesitddi5717 34 хвилини тому +1

    Watched till the end! Justin was convicted for NOTHING!!!

  • @nancydavid6854
    @nancydavid6854 2 години тому +3

    Does he not qualify for a group home? There are a lot of developmentally delayed young people in my area in group homes. I know this varies state to state

    • @lillianrogers75
      @lillianrogers75 2 години тому

      @@nancydavid6854 He needs 24 hour monitoring and they don’t have that kind of staff available in group homes.

    • @lreavis2
      @lreavis2 54 хвилини тому

      It all comes down to funding. Someone has to be responsible for the bill. Luckily the detention center took responsibility. Now Justin has a forever home with his adoptive father.

    • @Bluetongue.
      @Bluetongue. Хвилина тому

      He would qualify for a group home but he committed a crime that landed him in prison. This particular prison has the most suitable programs/ staff for his needs, hence why he's there. This was all explained in the doc.

  • @lisamariemooremccain2584
    @lisamariemooremccain2584 36 хвилин тому

    Wow!!! How about putting him in a Cila or a mental health facility??????

  • @kevinsantiago260
    @kevinsantiago260 2 години тому +1

    Bro this is crazee

  • @SeanKingeryHomes
    @SeanKingeryHomes 29 хвилин тому

    But we can send Billions and Billions to other countries but we don't have funding to help our kids. Extremely sad.

  • @woefulmelancholy
    @woefulmelancholy Годину тому

    This was an absolute miscarriage of justice and am egregious violation of human and civil rights. I'm desensitized to a lot but this was beyond heartbreaking to watch...

  • @godnah
    @godnah 24 хвилини тому

    It's almost like if you raise children as prisoners that they grow up to be prisoners.

  • @TecraTube
    @TecraTube 2 години тому

    when someone asks for a pork chop, better give it to them

    • @lreavis2
      @lreavis2 Годину тому

      At the end the documentary states that 10 years later it was found that the family lied so they no longer had to care for Justin.

    • @thundercrackerangrygriphar4553
      @thundercrackerangrygriphar4553 14 хвилин тому

      ​@@lreavis2 Wow 😢

  • @jamespaul6315
    @jamespaul6315 2 години тому +1

    What was he in prison for?

    • @MegaMoto85
      @MegaMoto85 Годину тому

      its bleeped out, but i hear chi- before the bleep, so im guessing child m-------

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому

      @jamespaul6315 not sure. They seem to have recorded one of the prison staff explaining it, but then for some reason removed the audio.

    • @jamespaul6315
      @jamespaul6315 Годину тому

      @@LindsayW138 might have been really bad

    • @thundercrackerangrygriphar4553
      @thundercrackerangrygriphar4553 13 хвилин тому

      Child molestation but the family allegedly lied so that they didn't have to care for him anymore

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 6 хвилин тому

      @@thundercrackerangrygriphar4553 where are you getting this information from?

  • @vickialexander1528
    @vickialexander1528 15 хвилин тому

    Wondering if brain does not fully mature until age 25 why would he not be alowed to stay at this facility until age of 25?

  • @kaitlinbeste
    @kaitlinbeste Годину тому

    So what did he do to the two little kids that got him into juvenile?

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому

      not sure. They seem to have recorded one of the prison staff explaining it, but then for some reason removed the audio.

    • @robynhayward
      @robynhayward 32 хвилини тому

      He m****ted them...

    • @robynhayward
      @robynhayward 31 хвилина тому

      ​@@LindsayW138the video would have gotten flagged

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 19 хвилин тому

      @@robynhayward I'm aware. That's not an excuse.

    • @robynhayward
      @robynhayward 16 хвилин тому

      @@LindsayW138 well it's not true anyways so maybe that's why.

  • @blankczechz
    @blankczechz 55 хвилин тому +1

    I'm just going to come out and state my belief. We need to bring back into the system the practice of true Christian-Judeo values. All humans have intrinsic value. All humans are cable of having a positive impact on their fellow man. How? The value of others comes not from what they give us. It comes from within each of us. That which we recognize in that person which causes us to grow in love and appreciation of our own lives. But if we do not understand our purpose, see this value and potential, if we lack love and this understanding, how do we even begin to change? May God bless each of those who saw the value in this young man. May He continue to keep their hearts pure and their minds resolute in the belief that each child is worthy of our love.

  • @vietcongpornsurfers
    @vietcongpornsurfers Годину тому

    Only in America

  • @jamespaul6315
    @jamespaul6315 48 хвилин тому +1

    Seems super sus they wont tell us WHY hes in prison. I dont think it would be for no reason

    • @robynhayward
      @robynhayward 32 хвилини тому

      They did. He m****ted 2 kids to get back at the adults for not giving him another pork chop.

  • @queenymorris837
    @queenymorris837 38 хвилин тому

    He did commit a crime, right? Why are we giving justification to criminals? What am I missing? I see that he's a kid, but we need to keep criminals off of the streets and behind bars where they should be.

    • @robynhayward
      @robynhayward 34 хвилини тому +2

      @@queenymorris837 He has an IQ of 42, he didn't understand what he was doing.

  • @JogBird
    @JogBird 2 години тому +2

    sad but we need to be protected from them

    • @texasrose2315
      @texasrose2315 2 години тому +4

      Some need to be protected from us.

    • @doodydoesitddi5717
      @doodydoesitddi5717 Годину тому +1

      What an uninformed comment. That poor boy!

    • @lovesallanimals9948
      @lovesallanimals9948 Годину тому +3

      Really I think we need to be protected from your ignorance

    • @lovesallanimals9948
      @lovesallanimals9948 Годину тому +3

      And he should have been protected from the adults don't you think ?

  • @مسكينهعل
    @مسكينهعل 2 години тому +1

    Oh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you byGod Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 45 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967772168484 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////،......,;;:!;!::!!;!:!:!;!;!:!;!;!:!;!;!::!!;!;!:!;!::!!,;;,,,,,,'+;;;!;!:!;!;:!!.........:.:.;..^.^.^....

  • @RAYMONDRaymondoONeill
    @RAYMONDRaymondoONeill Годину тому

    Why is he in prison

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому +1

      not sure. They seem to have recorded one of the prison staff explaining it, but then for some reason removed the audio.

    • @socku5850
      @socku5850 Годину тому +1

      He was act badly to get food or attention from his foster family. It not their kid. They don't care. Or he start fight with their kids.

  • @kevin02mulder
    @kevin02mulder 2 години тому

    lol. he is cute :)

  • @XANDER.....
    @XANDER..... 2 години тому

    Why is this kid there??? WTF

    • @TecraTube
      @TecraTube 2 години тому +1

      he didn't get a pork chop

    • @XANDER.....
      @XANDER..... 2 години тому

      @@TecraTube 😂

    • @LindsayW138
      @LindsayW138 Годину тому +1

      not sure. They seem to have recorded one of the prison staff explaining it, but then for some reason removed the audio.

    • @XANDER.....
      @XANDER..... Годину тому

      @@LindsayW138 yeah I noticed that too

    • @XANDER.....
      @XANDER..... Годину тому

      @@LindsayW138 i think it was child molestat….. you know