 This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this film was made. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the  tough  new inmate and the  old hands . The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown. So  Alan Clarke  (qv) and  Roy Minton  (qv) got it re-made as a film. This is a tough and brutal film and should not be viewed lightly.