'Born to prison' is a serie of documentaries about the charismatic lawyer Erbil Kaya and 3 of his young criminal clients. Through a year we follow Kasper, Djoanna and Mickeys and their battle trying to leave a criminal life behind. A rough childhood, continues wrong choices and a dirty record, is the brutal facts that these young people will have to fight on their way to a more safe an legal future.
Despite their heavy load there is still some light ahead for the 3 young people.
But it will require an enormous will-power to overcome the challenge it is to escape from the environment and people, who have made you the person you are, and to navigate in a system that only see you as a criminal teenager.
How do you get the motivation for an education and a real job when you don’t have any clue where to start, and at the same time have a growing debt from lost court-cases.
How do you restart your life when new law-suits makes it an easy choice just to go back to the criminal life your trying to escape from?
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