| Like Scum, the ugliness oflife within bortsal is depicted graphically in this shocking yet compelling insight into life behind bars in a woman's detention centre.
What happens when a young girl is sentenced to borstal and locked away from the everyday world?
Blazingly well acted by a cast of unknowns, some of whom have done time, Scrubbers exposes a brutal society in which the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system.
Through the hatred of lesbian Carol and promiscuous teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless round of violence, bitching and brawling that have made Britain's borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime...
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