Category: Juvenile justice system
Broadcasts: PBS WHYY in Philadelphia
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of several young men living in a juvenile detention center that flies in the face of stereotypes about who ends up in the juvenile justice system. The focus is a theater workshop that took place at Saint Gabriel's Hall, a juvenile detention center outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 6-week workshop under the tutelage of a trained actor, the boys perform in a series of skits, protraying hardened criminals, victims of crime, family members of criminals, law enforcement officers... all to stimulate discussion and reflection about their lives and what led them to commit crimes, and to show the viewer how varied this cross-section of young men is in terms of personality, attitude, ethnicity, life experiences... they're not who you might expect.
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