17 piges

Ben N'Kante, 17, is in his final year of high school when two police officers come pick him up and take him directly to Fleury-Mérogis prison where he is incarcerated in the juvenile ward. He does not know then that he will stay there the whole of the following year until he turned 18. His life then changed. When he arrived, Ben is a high school student like so many others "outside". A good student, he goes every morning at the prison school center with the firm intention of pass his baccalaureate. He is cooperative with the protection mediator juvenile justice and prison administration. It is only necessary a few months of detention and the prospect of an imminent release who walks away so that Ben's behavior deteriorates. He, the prisoner copy no longer goes to class or almost, fights, insults supervisors... He, the young man so well-groomed, neglects himself: the haircut, clothes, nothing matters anymore! What's the point! Isabelle Dautresme, a journalist specializing in education issues, and Bast, who hosted a comic strip workshop in a juvenile detention area, wanted to show the harmful effects of imprisonment on these young people whose future is blocked from let them pass through the prison gates.