Education of youth in a penal colony

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1990.

The television film "Because I Love" is dedicated to a social study of the problems of education of youth, the origins of cruelty and offenses, the shortcomings of the existing system of forced re-education of minors in correctional labor colonies and the difficult path of return to society.

On the video: a colony in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, department of the Correctional Labor Force; youth aged 14 to 18 receive early release; teenagers from Kyiv smoke cigarettes, hug, are on a walk; interviewing minors in the colony, stories about their own life path, reflection on their actions and ideas about the future; "Kyiv Reception-Distributor for Minors", sports classes, children perform exercises, a policeman controls the duel of boys; a canteen in colonies, different plans; young offenders talk about informal rules of life in places of deprivation of liberty; colony yard, young men from different plans; survey of young people about social gap in society, reasons for committing crimes, prison jargon; psychological recovery in the colony, exercises under the supervision of a specialist; factory where offenders work, working days, machines; tattooing of offenders; young men talk about fears of the process of integration into society after release; writer Yuriy Pokalchuk's trip, communicates with young people.

Comment on minors in places of deprivation of liberty, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Kyiv City Executive Committee, the administration of the Pryluky City Criminal Investigation Department, writer Yuriy Pokalchuk.