Rips the Lid from an Inferno of Human Passions!
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
fire
judge
nurse
youth gang
gang
solitary confinement
juvenile delinquent
reformatory
pre-code
reform school
revolt
sick child
reformer
racketeer
escape attempt
mob justice
self government
child mistreatment
kindly guard