AFF Presents...BURNED: LIFE IN AND OUT OF TEXAS YOUTH PRISONS

17th Annual Austin Film Festival & Conference (October 21-28, 2010)

BURNED: LIFE IN AND OUT OF TEXAS YOUTH PRISONS

This feature-length documentary film follows a year in the lives of two boys incarcerated in Texas' scandal-plagued juvenile justice system. Justin Cannon faces trial for an escape from a youth facility, attempted after prison psychologists told him he would spend the rest of his life locked up. Joseph Galloway struggles to adjust to life on the outside after release from a facility where he was raped by another youth in a locked security cell and repeatedly beaten in gang-related fights. Through these tense, haunting personal narratives, the film examines the broader national debate over the future of juvenile corrections. Presented in partnership with The Texas Observer