Films/Videos
Girls Incarcerated
2018
Girl Incarcerated (2018 – 2019) is an American documentary series.
In the 1st series, the documentary follows 15 teenage girls locked up in the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Madison, Indiana. Interviews were conducted with the girls plus their correctional officers, teachers and counsellors.
That correctional facility (for young people 14 – 18) was subsequently closed.
In the 2nd series, teenage girls – and their workers – at the LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana were involved in the documentary.
According to a The New Yorker review on 30 April 2018 by Doreen St Felix, the 1st series felt “propagandistic”, ie, it “does not question the idea of a detention center being the best place for a young person, even a nonviolent one…”