How to pronounce “juvenile hall” in English

And we started the juvenile hall meditation groups together.

cocoon of the juvenile hall and returning to their communities.

And I remember being in juvenile hall and seeing sometimes kids getting visits, and I knew that my mother was never coming because she was so much in her addiction.

Now we're at every single juvenile hall in Los Angeles County.

Those are some of our youngsters from juvenile hall.

When I first went to juvenile hall and I was talking to kids and the one guy goes, man, they're not sure if--

And so I went into the juvenile hall.

What role did juvenile hall play in your development at that time?

Yeah, the juvenile hall-- well, I think, just the institutions in California, it's split up by race.

I was in and out of the system in juvenile hall, and as an adult, I went in and out of the county jail.

That's the experience I've been having in juvenile hall.

So to take this experience of being in juvenile hall, of being in a situation that seems so pessimistic

That's what you learn about going to juvenile hall.

This is our group, juvenile hall walking along the river.

And we left there and we went to a juvenile hall, where we played chess with the kids and talked to them about chess and life.

And I'd been in and out of this juvenile hall quite a bit from, I think I was about 11 years old the first time I got arrested.

So I'm hanging out with other Asians that are inside prison and/or inside juvenile hall.

We want to take it so when they do get out of juvenile hall, they have a place to go.

and I went back to my cell, my juvenile hall cell, and started trying to meditate with this simple-- actually, I think the other instruction that I was given was count.

And so she had mentioned that she mentors children who had been sex trafficked at Central Juvenile Hall.

that was in foster care, group homes, and in juvenile hall.

And at 17 years old, sitting in Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall, where I grew up.

And then it just made sense to me a few years into my own meditation practice to start going back in to the juvenile hall

And so sometime in the mid '90s, I started going back into the same juvenile hall.

They're wearing confinement shoes that are given to them, because they're facing life in prison, or in juvenile hall, or in camp.

And since then, in the past three years, we started with Central Juvenile Hall.

And Nancy also worked in social service, so it opened up doors quite easily, I could say, to get into juvenile hall,

And then we ended up-- that's where we started our first program, actually, was in the juvenile hall there.

or unhappiness, our well being, just like me sitting in that juvenile hall cell, it doesn't really depend on what's going on.