Vennerne Miklo, Paco og Cruz vokser op i 70'ernes East Los Angeles. Da de tre kommer i klammeri med de lokale bander for det vidtrækkende og meget forskellige konsekvenser for resten af deres liv.

Fire unge knægte vokser op i NYC's Hells Kitchen i 60'erne. En dag laver de en drengestreg, der næsten kræver et dødsoffer. Drengene kommer i ungdomsfængsel, hvor de stifter bekendskab med den sadistiske og sodomistiske fangevogter Nokes (Kevin Bacon). Det medfører livlange traumer, indtil de som voksne en dag igen møder deres fangevogter.

Den unge Mick O'Brien (Sean Penn) bliver dømt for drab, og han bliver sendt i fængsel. Fyren, han har slået ihjel, er lillebror til hans værste fjende Paco (Esai Morales). Paco vil hævne drabet på sin bror, og for at ydmyge Mick, hævner han sig ved at voldtage Micks kæreste. Paco bliver fanget og anbragt i det samme fængsel som Mick. Nu fortsætter rivaliseringen inden for fængslets vægge, og det kommer ikke til at gå stille for sig.

Efter at have afsonet sin dom er Santana tilbage på gaden, for første gang siden hans teenage år. Han lærer hurtigt, at livet udenfor tremmerne er ligeså brutalt som indefor. Den barske virkelighed i ghettoen og hans blodplettede fortid giver ikke Santana mange muligheder for at vende sit gamle liv ryggen. Filmen beskriver en kultur, der ødelægger sig selv indefra, og hvor fængslet forvandler unge til iskolde mordere. Baseret på en sand historie!

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

Velkommen til ungdomsfængslets dyriske verden. Her er det den stærkeste, der overlever, og hvert svaghedstegn bliver straffet hårdt og brutalt. Det er den rå virkelighed, de tre unge forbrydere Angel, Davis og Butch må lære at begå sig i, da de begynder at afsone deres domme. Der går ikke lang tid, før de tre ungdomsforbrydere har lagt sig ud med fængslets barske førerhund, Banks, og nu må de kæmpe for at overleve.

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.

When juvenile inmate Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

Two feuding members of the same gang are arrested after a fight with another gang and must stick together while serving time in a juvenile prison.

Cleveland 'Stack' Stackhouse is a guard with the Texas Correctional Youth Authority who witnesses the cycle of destructive choices and racial tensions among female teen offenders and decides to do something about it. He gathers African-American, Latina and Caucasian teens, and organizes a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the prison. Participation in Stack's track team not only breaks down the racial divides between the girls, but puts them on a path to turn their lives around.

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.

The movie revolves around Viswanathan (Jayaram), Meera (Jyothirmayi) and little Vasudev (Kalidas Jayaram) who are from a very happy family.

Behind the walls of the Compound, LA’s most violent juvenile offenders await their trials. To their advocates, they’re kids. To the system, they’re adults. To their victims, they’re monsters. Who are they to you?

The 50 years old long-running legendary stageplay comes to big screen in 29 March 2019. Produced by Johnny Kitagawa himself, starring future stars Jesse, Kyomoto Taiga, Kouchi Yugo, Matsumura Hokuto, Morimoto Shintaro, Tanaka Juri (of group SixTONES), and more than hundred of Johnny's Juniors.

Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in, now as a trained somatic therapist. Through an intimate look into the lives of incarcerated youth, we will see the consequences of childhood trauma.