A series of films about our lives - now.
What makes people criminals? Will we ever learn to deal with violence and crime? Is punishment the answer? The three young Jales brothers are always in and out of jail. John Jales and his brothers Brian and Philip are persistent criminals. They've never made the big time, rarely made the papers - but they have long criminal records, and have spent most of their lives locked in cells. Now, as they await trial yet again, they talk of the criminal life. Mostly the talk is about violence, arrests, hatred, getting your own back. And the difficulty of going straight.
In this frank and disturbing film the Jales brothers give a rare insight into the world of the criminal.
Narrator Michael Bryant Singer CHERYL LUCAS
Photography BILL BROOMFIELD Film editor JIM DUFFY
Producer PAUL WATSON
Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
(Postponed from 5 November 1987)
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