Nick Broomfield Retrospective

The year is 1978. The place is a Youth Training Center, a prison for minor delinquents in California. Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill, his longstanding, faithful associate, were given the permission to access the entire facility, and basing the film around four prisoners, they made one of the most honest and most unscrupulous documentaries about prison life. The head of the institution is an old man with one foot in retirement, determined to maintain the existing ways of rehabilitation - ghastly rules and restrictions that most certainly don’t rehabilitate the prisoners, but only push them into further rebellion and resistance. P.S. A popular song by Tupac Shakur has the same title, and two decades later the gentleman in question posthumously became the main lead in Broomfield’s documentary ‘Biggie and Tupac’.