Prison Documentary: Life In The System Then & Now - A Look Back & Update 23 Years Later
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.พ. 2024
- In this exclusive full length documentary first filmed in 1999, we look back at five stories of kids and families as they go through years in the juvenile justice system. This film marked the first time cameras were ever allowed inside three different juvenile courts, as the kids and families involved agreed to have their stories filmed in the hopes that their experiences could help other families better understand what it's really like to be ensnared in a system that can often take decades to emerge from. These are the stories of Delena, Josh, Chelsea, Conni and Raymond and the years we spent with them inside the system. At the end of this video is an update on where they are now, 23 years after we first met them.
All content produced and owned by Calamari Productions, LLC
www.calamariproductions.com - บันเทิง
![LISA - ROCKSTAR (Official Music Video) REACTION [SHE'S BACK!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QBxE30vavMQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I was a kid in the system and a mother similar to Josh’s mom. I know the years of trails this poor kid has to go through. For me, I was able to reconnect with my dad and he supported me up until his death last year. He also facilitated reconnecting with my mom and after becoming a mother myself I’ve forgiven her. She’s a wonderful grandmother and a good support in my life today. I pray Josh has a similar experience ❤
I'm so glad it resolved that way, I'm sure it took hard work on everyones part. Good job.
I really like those two female judges. They have compassion for the kids as well as the family's. ❤
@lesliechapa7463 - not an easy job, that's for sure. Thank you for watching!
Is that Lester Holt narrating? It sure does sound like him! Anyhow, this is a great channel. You guys should be proud of the Documentaries you all have produced.
@CellarDoorx06 - Good catch! Yes, it is! Thank you so much for your kind words about our work. We hope the stories we capture help illuminate a system that people rarely get to see, and help some people feel like they're not alone if they're going through the same issues. We greatly appreciate your viewership and your comments about our videos. Thanks again!
Joshua needs a real hug, love, and attention. His mother is so cold. Poor kiddo deserves better.
Thanks for shedding some light on the subject
@figure9607 - You're very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
The judge is fair very compassionate
Thank u for this insightful documentary the fact u took 7 years to put it out shows your dedication and professionalism to your journalism kudos to your producers and team. I sub alrdy 👍🏻😄
@Bekindloveis - thank you so much for your kind words about our work and for subscribing to our channel! Greatly appreciated!
@@CalamariProductions my pleasure & God bless u all 😇
I would real love to know how Joshua is. I hope his life turn out for the better for him.
Watching this documentary was a profound and eye-opening experience. It's a powerful reminder of the complexities within the system. The raw emotions, the struggles, and the resilience of the individuals featured left me speechless. It's not just about the crimes committed; it's about the journey of redemption, the pursuit of hope, and the quest for justice. This documentary sheds light on important issues while also humanizing those often marginalized by society. A must-watch for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human condition and the flaws within our justice system."
@Clifford - wow, thank you so much for watching and posting such poignant comments. Covering these stories has been life changing for all of us at Calamari Productions, for the very reasons you mention above. We never know exactly what will happen with any given case, and the kids and families we meet often leave us speechless with what they go through. It's an honor to be entrusted with their stories, and an honor to bring them to our viewers. Thank you again for taking the time to let us know how the documentary moved you. It means a great deal to us.
These are always a must watch, thankyou 🙏 ❤
@Lava_Girl- - Thank you so much! We greatly appreciate viewers like you who watch and take the time to comment! Have a great week!
I have issues with Conni medication. 2 of those meds have horrible side affects
What were they
I agree, my goodness she is on some serious meds! I wonder if they have tried to at least cut those 2, I tried Triazadone (sp). It didn’t help me & I didn’t like the side effects & I was 56 yrs old!
Everyone is different and has different reactions to medications. Also, she was in a setting where she was monitored.
In certain circumstances, the benefits of taking this combination of drugs may outweigh any risks.
This is very good and informative, thanks for doing this
@dannycanti8433 - thanks! Appreciate that!
This was really good.
@kep2700 - Thanks! Really appreciate that!
It’s striking the difference between Joshua’s mom and Chelsea’s mom and their reactions to separating with their children.
You know one thing for sure. If you don't try, nothing will change, and you definitely won't make a difference ❤
I was excited to see the 23 yr update 😢 where’s it at
@nicolehaw1088 - all the updates are at the end of the show. Apologies if you somehow missed them!
@Calamari Prod. You achieved your goal with me, this is a big wake up call to me! It’s no wonder some of these children grow up without goals, empathy, compassion or much education & turn to drugs or crime. How awful if they don’t get help & ALL the help they need, guidance, unconditional love. I so appreciate the Judges that do help the children & the ones that grow into productive adults that have decent lives, love & goals & achieve some dreams. Thank you Judges & Calamari! Rest in Our Lord’s arms Judge Viola T., you did wonderful work & helped many people! ❤️🤗🙏
@lesare6509 - We greatly appreciate your warm and kind comments. Thank you so much! So happy you watched this documentary and the stories moved you. Thank you again for taking the time to comment!
I’m just starting to watch and the case of joshua sickens me because it the typical selfish single mom who alienates her child from the dad to the point that the child explodes and instead of letting dad have custody she vindictively signs the child over to the state with no regard to the child or dad. This boy should have gone with dad from day one and visited mom. Mom is not fit to parent on her own.
Exactly you would think as she put it she loves him & wants to do the best thing for him to help him yada yadda she’d send him to his dads FIRSTS before turning him over to the state….unless there’s things we don’t know about the dad like he’s not able to take him in or doesn’t want to or on drugs etc I don’t understand who would do this as the first option….also ig it’s different these days but usually they send them to juvi for a crime like this not just put him in foster care? Then he goes home after his sentence I guess he’s already finished that & they’re atp now.. then step dad says he seems “cold” well no shit in his eyes just like he said his mom doesn’t want him & she could’ve at least said that to him what she told the camera instead of just “no I don’t want him home” my bad for the long rant but I went through things as a teen & wld feel/think the same exact way
I agree
@@kerstieamiya4880 I’m sorry you went through this too. It’s just sickening. It seems like the dad has no say in his own son’s life and that’s just not right. It’s not right that the son had to sneak around just to call dad. And it’s not right that mom would throw her own son in prison before letting him live with dad. It’s pure vindictiveness, zero love.
@@karireyes9178 she could have lived happily with her new man if she had just let her son live with his dad but i guess she didn’t want to give up the tax deduction, child support checks, and all the other government and societal benefits she received by keeping him. I think it all boiled down to money and vindictiveness, nothing more. I feel sorry for the boy not the mom in this case.
It's honestly disgusting
Rip judge viola
@calebk8518 - Thank you for mentioning her. She was a wonderful woman and is greatly missed.
Oh wow! When did she pass? May she Rest in Paradise 😢🙏🏻💔❤️🕊🕊
Was this from Dateline? Just curious because... Lester Holt... Thank you for the video!! ❤ Subscribed!!! 😊
@Just_JennAy - Thank you for subscribing and welcome to our channel! Good catch hearing Lester's voice. Yes, he is the narrator but this wasn't a Dateline show. Thank you for watching and we hope you'll stay tuned for much more!
Today more kids with diabetes are now able to stay home. What u have remember is at this time there was not tools that we have today did not exist it was sad
Also I'm going to point out A bad temper or any kind of bad attitude will never make things better no matter if your right or wrong just cope with it calmly and do the best you can and hope the good attitude will reach the right judge
Amen to the second judge 🙏
I'm praying 🙏 for this young man,so young confused 😕
Will u ever go back to Pendleton juvenile. Love these vids
@jacobiswinningjm6228 - thanks for watching! Yes, we hope to go back in the very near future. Thanks for asking!
That guy taking his pictures? Threatening that kid? What a punk
Just started watching you today
@StephanieCagg-hj7ic - Welcome to our channel! So glad to have you here. We hope you'll check out our previous videos and stay tuned for more ahead! Have a great weekend!
Loved the first woman judge. She seems smart/empathetic & compassionate.
Nope! Giving your child away because you can’t handle them! Speaking of that adorable little girl left off at that facility… nope!! Bad parents!!! No way you will change my mind on that one!!
Seen this case some time ago... foster mother knows how to manipulate / wanted that Baby for her own, is what i took from it!...anything new here.... ( hope the Boy is back with his Natural Mother and both are doing great / free from all involvement with services & foster care provider / narcissist...🙏 5:03
baby snatchers
wow 9 years old. I don't think I leave her.
I know I couldn't either. That one broke my heart for sure. I felt like in even telling her bye, the mom seemed kind of cold. Like a one armed hug, like you would give a friend, vs your 9 yr old baby.
@@lauradavis4848I think she cares, she seems a little numb after going thru so much with a 9 year old with so many developmental issues. It's truly sad to watch I agree 😢😢
I know generations of families in prison
Triple og
Og son
And baby gangster son.
Shit dont stop.
Parents are the reason.
Real families are loyal.
God Bless ❤❤❤❤
I wonder how much of the problem is inability to discipline and parent effectively. So many seem unable to introduce the word NO, or provide direction. This is a difficult time for children, truly. Not enough models of reasonable, responsible adult behavior to emulate for them.
I've been thinking the same thing 🤔 absolutely agree with you 💯 percent 😊❤
Something is wrong in Conni's house. All the kids are messed up? Uh uh.
dang connie takes so much meds.
That foster Mom manipulated delana for Gavin, Gavin deserves to be with his Mom
What breaks my heart for foster kids is they don't get unconditional love. Yes steeling $ 400 from foster mum is terrible but if a kid steels from a birth parent do they normaly call 911 or do they punish from home if before that act they there behaviour was gr8.
That’s true. They never truly feel like a family or lived unconditionally. Foster parents doing what you mentioned don’t care for that child . They wouldn’t do that. My son has autism and he is bi-polar. He has been having issues . Extreme anger outta nowhere . Punched holes in walls sprayed cleaner in my face and tried to hit me with the bottle . Anyways I’m hearing call the police. Long story short I did t call the police. I didn’t want him in trouble . He is over 18 now so it be on his record . I love him and I understand he has issues and he is taking a new me trying to help just has t been long enough to see if it’s working I wouldn’t do a step child like that either or a foster child what I’m trying to say. That’s just making matters worse!
I feel so bad for Chelsie , breaks my heart .
I think juvenile trials were better in the past than today. Physical restricitions and uniliations are more common today than yesterday. It’s something se have to discuss… There are to many consequences of that in their brains… We can’t accept that!
AGREE WITH THE JUDGE
That woman refused to let her husband see her 2 year old son took him to court a judge who gave him 5 years for accusation of stalking her etc & the kid ends up bouncing from foster parents & then she finally signed him over to his parents what kind of a parent is she this just shows she did it out of spite & she should have given the boy custody to her husband in the first place the. He wouldn’t be serving a 5 year jail term & the kid wouldn’t have been messed up bouncing from one foster parent to another cos she didn’t take care of him all very sad the justice system should help & not work against the parent who doesn’t has custody & is denied visits of the child by the estranged bitter spouse the law should help let the other parent get access not prosecute them with charges true or not or exaggerated levied against the vengeful parent which ends up making the kid suffer
The foster mother is a saint.
Judge I no it’s on u but I’m proud of u . The kids sometimes goes through a lot home but there some got it all but just needs help and a lot of time and support
Poor Joshua that mother is so f cold " why u so Quiet then ? Really 🤯
I feel for these kids I believe they need one on one attention not be around other kids that have behaviour difficulties where it distracts a child and has to protect oneself
There placed in a different home survival mode is on. One on one attention stability I believe will extremely help the healthy guidance of the child's and work on the root of the situation not being around distractions from the kids. They may be able to concentrate stronger . And not get get written up because someone stepped on his shoes. Where focusing on the child only and their needs.
How did the kid's so screwed up? It's her invirenment,house her home life is her mom taking care of her right?
U didn’t mention if all these facilities are free & paid by the state or subsidised? If it free some of these parents may find it easier to dump them there than go through the trouble of dealing with their difficult kids 😮
What i wonder is the success rate for kids in places such as DAMAR ? 34:06
The young girl that was left in a home due to aberrant behavior, may have cognitive dysfunction that can only be revealed by a brain scan. And what was that young girl fed? A diet high in sugar, high-oxalate foods, processed food with chemicals, herbicides, etc. can affect mood and behavior.
Chelsea isn't crying it's weird.
5 years jail for wanting to see his son? His wife should have been locked up instead for denying him that right what kind of justice is this? Probation would have been more reasonable . The judge was just pissed cos he told him off. All very sad!
If a person takes so many kinds of prescibed drugs for psychological issues one wonders if it affects their actions & thinking when they have violent outbursts
Trial over $400 am I understanding this ?
No, trial over betrayal. Could be a $1 The amount isn't the problem.
Chelsea I couldn't do it
It’s so sad
'No Place For A Child.' PLEASE! America has been imprisoning children since the induction of this country. What happened to "don't do the crime if you can't do the time?" Suddenly, the prison system is a problem, because the faces of the prisoners are changing? Cry me a river!
36:58 " i want my son to have the love and time he deserves from his natural mother in order that he has the best chance / least damage as is possible... to have the opportunity to repay the foster mother as i had always fully intended to do"
Where was her Legal reps head . Poor kids. That foster mother is 1 selffish woman with evil intent, she lets us know in her own words.
quit making excuses for the first teenage mother. she had support and a family in the mother figure and foster parent who was taking care of her. smh. sickening. she deserves to be treated as any other criminal.
Deleena. Should ask.for.A loan and job
Raymond’s mother is a disgrace for a mother, at least the father is in his life
23yrs later and the children system couldn’t be worse. Full on predators are now getting rights to innocent kids. ON TOP of everything else. Big Fail
Can somebody tell me why children are placed in so many different foster homes? Why don’t they just stay with one family? No obviously if there’s an issue with the child or the foster parent, I understand that could not happen, but if there’s not what’s solution is moving then why move them if there’s no problem
As a person who has fostered children in the past, when a child is first removed from their home, depending on time of day, day of the week etc, sometimes the only place a caseworker is able to place them at the moment is in a temporary home. Possibly a foster home who only does respite care, which is short term placement, a week or two usually. They then begin the search to find a more suitable long-term placement for the child. They may be in a home for 6 or 8 months, the parents do the services required and get them back, only to go back to their old ways and child gets removed again. Then another home is found. Say they stay for a few months and parents tell the judge, hey my friend or family member said they will take the child to get them out of the foster home, and child moves again once that home is approved. Then say the child starts showing behavior problems, family says I cant handle this, and back to a foster home they go. Can't go back to prior home, because that family now has another child in that bed and has no room. Then after a few months in that home, something happens to say foster mom's family, ie a death in the family or having to take on an elderly parent to care for, so they can no longer foster. Child gets moved again. Then because they have been moved so much, more behavior issues. Then maybe they try a residential treatment facility to help the child with behavioral issues. Then when they get that help, they get moved to yet another foster home and so on. If parents rights get terminated, and the child is in a foster home that's not one who is a foster to adopt home, child is moved again as the states job is to find a permanent solution. If an adoptive home can't be found, they may move several more times. There are so many reasons as to why they get moved. They don't just move them around to be moving them. Its sad, because each move causes trauma to the child. The more trauma the child endures, the more likely they are to exhibit behavioral issues.
She should give josh to hid dad, she was selfish mom.hes acting out, needs his father.stepfather looks like a bully, she pucked man over her kids.😢🙏🏼
Connie is a mess. She needs to be locked up.
The first girl, i thought this was going to be a video just about her and her success story as it started out, but I was thinking she was raised without a dad so she’s going to have boy problems and sure enough after I thought that it reports that for a boy she steals from the person that truly cares for her.
I’m sickened that 5 days is the maximum punishment that can be given to her as a thief. That’s just not right to the victim and society.
had no remorse either, could tell she only felt sorry for herself and was using that poor lady for a place to stay and take care of her illegitimate kid. Talks bad about her own real mother and then goes out and gets knocked up at 14, real winner she is. You can tell shes gonna spend most of her life on her back just by her demeanor. Gives up her one kid while pregnant with another. Im sure when that kid is old enough hes gonna wonder how come he wasn't good enough to keep but the other kid was and will hate her. Can't stand her with her stupid haircut and sunglasses on her head yuck.
Having been through the UK system as a child. I feel for all the children. At 62 my childhood still raises its ugly head. but now I can deal with it. Luckily i have a lovely lady who knows what I went through ( well some of it } She has been and still is a Rock
NYCOCAINE MARTIAN MARS PARADIGMN.😊😊😊😊😊.