Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
Νέα Υόρκη, 1966. Τέσσερις ατίθασοι νεαροί, ο Σέικς, ο Μάικλ, ο Τόμι και ο Τζον ρίχνουν ένα καρότσι με χοτ ντογκς στις σκάλες του υπόγειου σιδηροδρόμου. Ένας άνθρωπος σκοτώνεται από αυτή την επιπολαιότητά τους και οι τέσσερις νεαροί συλλαμβάνονται και στέλνονται σε αναμορφωτήριο για 18 μήνες. Εκεί θα κακοποιηθούν σεξουαλικά και θα βασανιστούν από τους φύλακες, προϊστάμενος των οποίων είναι ο σαδιστής Νόουκς…
Ο νεαρός Mick O’Brien γνωστός εγκληματίας στον υπόκοσμο του Σικάγο συλλαμβάνεται και οδηγείται στις φυλακές ανηλίκων για φόνο εξ αμελείας. Για κακή του τύχη το θύμα ήτανε ο μικρός αδερφός του μεγαλέμπορου ναρκωτικών Πάκο Μορένο ο οποίος για να εκδικηθεί το θάνατο του αδερφού του βιάζει την κοπέλα του Μαικ. Μέσα από την φυλακή ο Μαικ οργισμένος προσπαθεί να δραπετεύσει χωρίς όμως επιτυχία. Η σύλληψη όμως του Πάκο και η κράτηση του στην ίδια φυλακή με τον Μαικ οδηγεί σε απρόσμενες εξελίξεις καθώς και οι δύο άνδρες έρχονται αντιμέτωποι και παίρνουν το νόμο στα χέρια τους…
Δύο ανήλικα παιδιά εργάζονται ως λούστροι παπουτσιών στη Ρώμη κι έχουν ως όνειρο να αποκτήσουν ένα άλογο. Η επιθυμία τους γίνεται πραγματικότητα, όταν ο αδερφός ενός εκ των δύο προσφέρει στα παιδιά εύκολα, αλλά μάλλον όχι και τόσο νόμιμα, χρήματα. Με αποτέλεσμα, οι δύο πρωταγωνιστές να οδηγηθούν σε φυλακές ανηλίκων, όπου οι συνθήκες και οι καταστάσεις αντιστρέφουν την προγενέστερη φιλία σε αντιπαλότητα και εχθρότητα.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
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.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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.
When juvenile inmate Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
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.
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.
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.
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?