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What it’s like to spend your teen years in jail

Being branded a felon can make restarting one’s life a major challenge.

11/03/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

What it’s like to spend your teen years in jail

Clip: 11/3/2016 | 3m 38s

Being branded a felon can make restarting one’s life a major challenge.

As teenageers, Vaughn Brown and Ivan Mayo were incarcerated at Rikers Island, where they confronted danger from fellow inmates, solitary confinement and their own thoughts. The two have vowed to never go back to jail. But being branded a felon can make restarting one’s life a major challenge. Brown and Mayo give their Brief But Spectacular takes on being in jail and getting out.

11/03/2016 | Rating NR

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