[1] Filmed at Wakefield Prison, it was commissioned for the purpose of educating people involved in criminal justice.
[citation needed] The film was made for educational purposes by the Central Office of Information to be shown privately to magistrates and others who were involved in administering criminal justice.
[3] It was one of three produced under Donald Taylor at the Crown Film Unit and completed in 1950.
One is serving a short sentence for a first-time offence, one is a youthful thief who is mentally sub-normal, one is being given training to prevent him from turning into a habitual criminal and the fourth is a hardened criminal who knows the ropes of prison existence.
The magistrates said the first offender and the mentally defective thief would not in fact have been sentenced in jail.