Mike Gilpatrick with shirt off

Mike Gilpatrick, who as a teenager was incarcerated at the Youth Development Center, poses showing this tattoos that were inked with a sharpened guitar string while serving time in prison as an adult, at his home, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, in Nashua, N.H. "That place turned us into what we were. I can't say what I am now because I'm a better person now. But coming out of that place, I was a monster.", Gilpatrick said during an interview with the Associated Press. Gilpatrick, 38, filed a lawsuit Monday Sept. 13, alleging he was physically and sexually abused at the former YDC in Manchester, which has been the target of a criminal investigation since 2019 and is slated to close in 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)