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First Degree
A great pick for any middle or high school social studies class studying mass incarceration and as a consideration for what college is really all about.
Kids in Jail
Not essential, yet teens and adults interested in lockdown culture will enjoy and gain insight from this film.
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
An inside look at a horrific ordeal ripped from the headlines that will be devoured by teens.
Somewhere Between
Given that there are six million adoptees in America, this is an important film even though issues of identity are examined only as far as these teens will allow.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
What is the one commonality of people on death row? If the victim is white, the perpetrator is 11 times more likely to be condemned to die than if the victim is black...
Burning Down the House: The End of Youth Prison
Bernstein outlines the history of juvenile "reform" schools, the rise and fall of the rehabilitative model, and the reality of what happens behind bars to already traumatized teens: further physical, sexual, and mental abuse...
The Boy in the Black Suit
Gr 7 Up—Matt's mother just died, and his dad isn't coping well, hanging out with the local drunk and downing whiskey, which results in his getting hit by a car and landing in the hospital...
Family Portrait in Black and White
Gr 11 Up—This complex film opens with skinheads marching in the Ukraine and one of them talking about how whites mixing with "subhumans" creates imbeciles...
Released
Gr 9 Up—Two-thirds of convicts freed from prison return to incarceration within three years, and Released presents the stories of three men and a woman, all former prisoners, who are currently tax paying citizens...
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