This was originally made, by British director Alan Clarke, as a TV movie in 1977. It was banned before it got shown so he then made this theatrical version. What you get here is a very downbeat look at life in an English Borstal(or juvenile detention center for young men for us Americans). Complete with male on male rape, suicide by slit wrists, plentiful racism and gratuitous violence. Not really an exploitation flick this has more of a pseudo-documentary feel to it and is definitely an interesting but very dated time-capsule.
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