A photography exhibit in a Maryland courthouse reveals the inner lives of 17 teens who graduated from Anne Arundel County's Juvenile Treatment Court program, the Capital reported on July 27.

'Insights: The Identity Project' is a mandatory component of the 6- to 18-month treatment program serving youths ages 13 to 17.

The program requires that participants attend writing and photography classes twice a week for one or two months. The teens' introspective writings accompany their self-portraits at the exhibit, which remains open through August.

'A lot of them have just shut down,' said John D. Fullmer, the program's administrator. 'We're trying to re-engage them in the life process.'

'I think it's really revealing for the parents,' said Judge Pamela L. North, the treatment court's presiding judge, of the exhibit.