Title: Girls Incarcerated: Young and Locked Up
Year: 2018
Genre: Documentary
My Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
Platform: Netflix
Date Watched: July 3, 2019 to July 5, 2019
Brief Summary of Plot from IMDb: A documentary show about troubled girls who are are juvenile delinquents in Madison Juvenile Center
| Episode Name | Episode # | Date Watched |
| Chapter 1: The Girls of Madison | 1 | 3-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 2: Until We Meet Again | 2 | 3-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 3: Mean Girls | 3 | 3-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 4: Where the Story Begins | 4 | 4-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 5: Love in Lockup | 5 | 4-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 6: High Expectations | 6 | 5-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 7: My Life Story | 7 | 5-Jul-19 |
| Chapter 8: Moving Mountains | 8 | 5-Jul-19 |
My Review: In the first episode we meet the girls of Madison, a juvenile detention center in Indiana. They are not sentenced to serve a particular time, but are rather sentenced to complete a program, which includes high school classes. Each girl is different, but seems to come from the same background: broken homes, addicted or incarcerated parents, no fathers, etc. Due to their abandonment issues, parents who aren’t around or on drugs, etc. these girls lash out in anger, because they are really hurting inside.
Some of these girls are actually really smart — they just have walked down the wrong path.
As I continued to watch the show, I started to feel really bad for these girls, and listening to the stories of physical, mental, and sexual abuse some of these girls have gone through in their short lives really broke my heart.
My sister lives in Indiana, about 30 minutes north of Indianapolis. I did not realize that Indianapolis was the 10th most dangerous city in the entire US. These girl had to grow up and survive in a really dangerous place, and often, when they are released, they go right back into their old environments.
This documentary is really well done and really brings another perspective to the life of being a juvenile delinquent. These girls do not do drugs, commit crimes, etc., because they like it, but they are doing it because they are deeply hurting and do not know how to handle their emotions, so they lash out and do destructive things.
If you are a fan of prison shows / documentaries, I would recommend this one.
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