Movies and TvShows featuring "juvenile-incarceration" theme.

When a 14-year-old girl kills her stepfather, she is sentenced to death. However, a lawyer offers her a chance at redemption and a new life outside of prison. As she navigates her newfound freedom, she must confront her troubled past and make life-changing decisions that will determine her future.

Sinners is a powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland, focusing on the story of a young woman who finds herself in a Magdalene Laundry, a Catholic nun-operated institution where 'fallen women' were sent to perform manual labor as punishment for their sins. Separated from her baby and subjected to physical punishment, she navigates the oppressive religious order and attempts to break free from the social stigma of her past. The film explores themes of abuse, forced adoption, social injustice, and the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

A look at the students and teachers of 'Island Academy' the high school for inmates of Riker's Island. The largest correctional facility in North America.

After a botched home invasion, 15-year-old Blake finds himself facing a virtual life prison sentence for Felony Murder. With the unwavering support of his single mother and teenage girlfriend, a David-and-Goliath uphill battle ensues in Elkhart, Indiana. They take on the system in hopes of a second chance.

Alice and Julius are riding along on a turtle until they notice someone has left a pie to cool on their third-storey window sill. They swipe it with the aid of the turtle and his elongated neck, but are pursued by a police officer. They try to paddle away across a pond and up a river, but the officer's determined to catch them. He tricks them into his paddy wagon and they end up in prison, where the hijinks continue with a daring jail break.

In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls serve their sentence for the grave crime of murdering their father, their husband or another male family member.

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.