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Kids Behind Bars

Type: TV - Single documentary
Released: 2005
Directed by: Rex Bloomstein

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Production Company Talkback Thames

Full credits (Main credits only)

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Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

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Rex Bloomstein has made several critically acclaimed and groundbreaking films inside prison, opening up worlds previously closed to the public.

With this film Bloomstein returns to the subject with an insight into life behind bars for Britain's under-18's, gaining unique access to two young offenders centres in the UK.

The number of young people under 18 detained in England and Wales has more than doubled in the last decade. According to the Prison Reform Trust, 80% will re-offend and return within two years. Bloomstein focuses on the personal stories of young offenders themselves who talk with extraordinary frankness about what led them to commit their crimes, how they feel about their actions and victims now and what their futures may hold; their stories, in their own words.

Synopsis:
Rex Bloomstein has made several critically acclaimed and groundbreaking films inside prison, opening up worlds previously closed to the public.

With this film Bloomstein returns to the subject with an insight into life behind bars for Britain's under-18's, gaining unique access to two young offenders centres in the UK.

The number of young people under 18 detained in England and Wales has more than doubled in the last decade. According to the Prison Reform Trust, 80% will re-offend and return within two years. Bloomstein focuses on the personal stories of young offenders themselves who talk with extraordinary frankness about what led them to commit their crimes, how they feel about their actions and victims now and what their futures may hold; their stories, in their own words.

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