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Originally Posted by MikeTodd
not sure what "The Borstals" are but it doesn't sound good. yikes!  |
Borstals were a complete waste of time, an inaccurate feature film was made of it entitled Scum it was a bourgeois leftists perverted view of what went on in such places.The reality of it was if you were half sensible you could get O levels in weeks and when it got violent they just shipped you out to an adult prisoner.A better reference for it is the book Borstal Boy by IRA bomber Brendan Behan.Behan was surprised to find he had far more in common with the English lads he met in Borstal than differences