ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — "My name is (asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk)! I'm 15 but I will be 16 on Nov. 14, and I am currently in jail. I have been in and out of jail sense (sic) the age of 12. I've been to a treatment center 3 times! It all started when my oldest sister Angel pasted (sic) away in February 19, 2014. She may have committed suicide!!?? But I don't know for sure. I don't think she would leave me like this ."

The letter is from a girl incarcerated at the time in the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center.

This young girl's story — frank and frightening — came...