Reality

TUMULAK, EDCEL P.

BSCE III-D1

Research Paper in Social Science

THE REALITY: MINORS ON JAIL

Based on the documentary film “Bunso: The youngest”

Four out of ten children in the Philippines ages 5-17 years old or the so-called “minors” were not sent to school due to financial problems. Some of them choose the dark side of life to survive. Many of them were abused by their parents or guardians. That's why they escape from their family to get free from the abusive hands. As the time passed by the percentage of out of school youth goes higher and higher. Almost of them were engaged into crimes. That's why many minors were sent to jail. Why in jail?Because every time they put in DSWD they just escape and go back to their criminal life. That's why the authorities were forced to put them in jail. It is a sad thing to hear cases like that but it is reality and we should accept it.

To prove these kind of scenario a documentary film entitled “Bunso: The youngest” was put into public to open the blind eyes and melt the stone hearts of the society.

The film succeeds in using the image of the prison space as a means to exteriorize juvenile injustice. In exposing the real threats that this kind of environment brings to the lives of the young detainees, the film puts this prison space on trial by critically interrogating the regressive effects of an adult detention center on child offenders. More specifically, it records how this space becomes an arena of struggle where the children who are less strong end up getting overpowered, hence suffering immensely far more than what they actually deserve or are capable of enduring. In so doing, the film provides a glimpse of the spatial politics involving the jail. This politics can be gleaned between the inmates and prison authorities, and among inmates belonging to two generally different age brackets (on the one hand, the adults, and on the other hand, the children/minors). The same spatial politics

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