Tre fettere vokser opp i tøffe East Los Angeles. Men etter en bloding bandekrig splittes de og går ulike skjebner i møte. Paco blir politimann. Miklo havner i fengsel. Og Cruz blir narkotikamisbruker. Til tross for dette holder blondsbåndene dem sammen.
Tre gutter, oppvokst i slummen, danner i 1959 en gjeng. Det er Santana, JD og Mundo som mener at deres eneste mulighet til å slå seg fram her i verden er gjennom kriminalitet og vold. Men gjengen ender snart opp i en konflikt med en annen bande, noe som får et tragisk utfall. Og etter å ha gått ut og inn av forbedringsanstalter havner de tre i Folsom State Prison i en alder av 18. Men også innefor fengselsmurene lever gjengen og setter seg snart i respekt hos sine medfanger. Og langsomt vokser antallet. Opptagelsesprøven er gjerne en voldshandling eller mord. Etter 18 år innenfor murene har de tre små muligheter til å kunne fungere som normale individer i et normalt samfunn. Forsøk på å bryte ut av den kriminelle løpebane er forbundet med mange farer...
5 male students enrolls at a school that has all female students. The boarding school was formerly an all-girls high school until the new school year. The student council then places the 5 male students in a place known as the prison on charges that they were peeping on the girls in the showers. The 5 male students struggle to escape from the prison. ~~ Based on the manga series with the same name by Hiramoto Akira.
About ten years after the Second World War, a group of juvenile offenders are sent to the Shounan Special Reform School, a kind of juvenile detention center, to deal with the atrocities and injustices they experienced in the war.
Naples. Still an organized crime stronghold. For the inmates at the Juvenile Detention Centre, time and space are interrupted. Taken away from their families and friends, they now have the opportunity to understand who they have been, who they are, who they want to be.
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
An eight-part documentary series that goes behind the scenes at Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana, where teenage girls struggle to overcome their troubled pasts and find hope for the future.
