Re: do people on the outside think borstal is like the flim scum? -- BORSTAL

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Subject: Re: do people on the outside think borstal is like the flim scum?

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Date Posted: 19:03:13 07/31/12 Tue
In reply to: KLAR 's message, "Re: do people on the outside think borstal is like the flim scum?" on 20:47:19 12/12/08 Fri

>>Scum.... watched this film a number times and Ray
>>Winstone plays a good Borstal Boy!
>>YES the film does depict Borstal correctly, apart from
>>the Gay scene, something that occurs time and again on
>>these forums! NO Gay did not happen! end of!
>>I spent over 23 months in Borstal and not once did
>>anything gay happen, either rape or freely.
>>Yes Borstal was as violent as the film, perhaps even
>>worse, but boys will be boys and hard they were!
>>I even laughed during the film at the part in scum
>>when Ray put the snooker balls into a sock.... yup I
>>did that and so did many others!
>>
>>Borstal was to sort us out... not to help us, or make
>>us socially acceptable.... get real... it was tough!
>>
>>Keith
>See my previous posts, I am from NI and i can say that
>the QUEER scenes DID happen, but not from the boys,
>the screws or "Prison Officers" had this as privalege.
>I well remember the tough program and regime but I
>cannot forgive the sexual assaults that I was
>subjected to and witnessed. Challenge this as you wish!
>Keef

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