wayward young people. however. Britain population in especially they have done outside. hope in the film the The solidarity imposed on throughout Scum.
John Judd, one of the actors, says the film should be shown in schools as a warning to We feel differently, has the highest prison West Europe, of then young people and more often than not black The film is a rounded indictment of the pera Fi Calle of youn offenders, which the government's proposals for 'reform' will do nothing to improve.
The violence the "trainees' learn to respect inside the institution is far worse than anything The only glimmer of is when the youth com together to organise a mini-strike in protest against the suicide of a new Borstal inmate.
of this action contrasts dramatically with the rampant individualism 'trainees' by SCTEWS Socialist Challenge '27 September 1979 Fage 15