Alan Clarke's 1979 film 'Scum' remains a hard-hitting exposé of British youth prisons - Los Angeles Times

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Alan Clarke's 1979 film 'Scum' remains a hard-hitting exposé of British youth prisons Los Angeles Times “The punitive system does not work.” By the time those words are spoken in Alan Clarke's devastating 1979 film, “Scum,” the viewer will scarcely be in need of further persuasion. A ferocious exposé of life in Britain's notorious borstals, or youth ...