Teenagers in Jail: A Love Story Behind Bars (Prison Documentary) | Real Stories

Teenagers in Jail: A Love Story Behind Bars (Prison Documentary) | Real Stories
With unprecedented access, this documentary paints an intimate, complex portrait of kids in jail. The film raises difficult yet vital questions about at-risk youth and young offenders, and asks: Should we be doing more to help them? The film follows two teenagers as they begin a romantic relationship behind bars.
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[@detrajackson5992]

This was crazy to watch because first you think aww he is sweet. Then you hear he murdered 2 people for nothing. Or then okay she has got it together but then I hear she cut out someone's tongue and fingers. Or she ran a cop over and paralyzed them for life and there is no remorse...wow!

[@sherbearpatson884]

Lock them up ! Or they will repeat their dirty deed !

[@dantauche7917]

Yeah they're all where they belong. Could care less about their love lives LUL

[@detrajackson5992]

@@sherbearpatson884 facts!

[@detrajackson5992]

@Dan Tauche I hear other people who say that they should be released, did NOT have their loved ones murdered by them...

[@Donyeil1]

I understand they want to be loved and cared for come from broken homes etc. But these are some harsh adults crimes we cannot forget that

[@michellelloyd8963]

Absolutely, especially in extreme cases like this. Lots of kids have hard lives and never ever reduce themselves to stuff like this. You can have sympathy but also the ability to know they are where they belong. Never forget, they aren't the victim...THEIR VICTIMS and victims families are.

[@mannyhood6024]

They are ALL victims. Babies raised in violence will perpetuate violence. The blood is on us all. It takes a village. The filmmakers stepped up to do something. God knows and sees all. Let Him judge and no man.

[@heather4189]

These kids are just looking for love.

[@SEBASTIAN-ce6go]

They want what we all want.. To be loved and appriciated

[@tinawindham6958]

Appreciated, me, 2

[@theresaclancy6091]

..and a head start into adult life...like money for rent , apt, work skills and true loving frienship, emotional and spiritual support, and the tools to find and nurture their gifts to make a independent better life for themselves.

[@mhiesisenyu2232]

You want crime? We the world of 99.9 person, not want crime. Plis try to understand😉.

[@billgatesleavingyamomshous8177]

And free Netflix

[@eddiesroom1868]

@@billgatesleavingyamomshous8177 bill!!! Get back in here! Also Hulu has sports bill...

[@Rachel-wv3nb]

This is the worst place for people to fall in love. I’ve never been in juvie or jail but I did go to a couple psych wards for suicide attempts/panic attacks/depression n I met this girl I thought was the loml. She was in residential treatment and she tricked me into pretending she was an amazing, just lost, human being. Super long story short.. I got my parents to foster her, she was an Angel to me and my parents until I caught her cheating and after that she started beating me tf up basically everyday as well as mentally abusing me every single day all day. She was so damn manipulative so damn crazy. She also physically, mentally, and financially abused my parents and tried killing all of us. Moral of the story you can’t trust unstable people. She was amazing the first 5 months of our relationship, seriously it was heaven, but once I caught her cheating it was all over. I didn’t know I fell in love with a narcissist pathological lying sociopath… and that should never be the situation. Thanks to whoever read all this :)

[@kentuckynanasaves1903]

Hoping things are better, and your family broke 🆓 of her , so true ya don't know the truth of someone ya just met 😳😢💭❣️... Gotta wait for the honeymoon phase wears off , n really get to know em 😨💯❣️... Everyone has flaws but some need more help than ya can give n if they can manipulate or use ya , 😮 they will suck the life out of ya 💀❣️...

[@Bettinasisrg]

Well that happens in life nowhere near any facilities!!

[@Rachel-wv3nb]

@@Bettinasisrg yea bc they ain’t in them yet🤣🤣that’s how they get there lmao they obvi come from the outside

[@Bettinasisrg]

They're kids that had no teaching in compassion and love who did what they knew, and have anger they can't understand. I really hope they can heal and live happy lives someday. No more violence.

[@jody024]

Do keep in mind, some of these cases are straight up criminals. A lot of criminals started out young. They can act like the best of them and manipulate people all the time.

[@highrider8827]

Damn them two will make a great couple......... A Killer and a Psycho girl. There go far for sure.

[@ezravelez7700]

These kids r old enough to know what's right from wrong

[@George-ps5]

This is so sad. I was adopted at age 3, my parents where checked and reviewed by multiple different people for around 5 months before I was in their care, yet other people are allowed to look after a kid right away with no checks at all - this is what can happen :(

[@elizabethgrogan8553]

He murdered 2 people, at the age of 15, and gets a short sentence. So confusing. Surely he is a danger to the public? She "didn't like some cop so ran him down, leaving him paralyzed for life"? These kids have committed some serious crimes. Would it not be better to have totally separate gender buildings and free space? They need to learn, not fall in love.

[@detrajackson5992]

I almost wrote the same comment. I have the same questions. Seems like blurred lines...

[@chloexelyse]

She didn’t do it because she simply didn’t like him. You’re leaving out the part where he assaulted her and stole from her. Not saying that makes it okay, but you’re totally omitting half of the story.

[@literallyknobody]

There is so much more I’d like to know.

[@luxtobeyou]

@@chloexelyse Yeah this drastically changed how I feel about her doing that, that's retaliation, illegal or not. it's not just random violence.

[@diksoeybowisani422]

@@chloexelyse now thats fair 💯

[@George-ps5]

When parents are incompetent this is what happens :(

[@christinawells2024]

I agree. I work in an emergency room in the US, and I believe nearly all the kids we get in for suicidal ideation or “aggressive behavior” are legit due to their home life. Many are in foster care or live in group homes. It is so unbelievably sad. They just want someone to love them.

[@George-ps5]

@@christinawells2024 keep up the good work

[@missyd7120]

@ George :]no offence but i turned out exactly the same when younger i went through many similar things as those girls and it was nothing to do with my parents being incompitent or my home life but i wil agree it did have to do with things that were happening in my life my parents knew nothing about and i didnt know how to tell them and maybey if i did things would have been different and id never have went to jail and got an addiction but hey lifes a lesson and we learn new ones each day i just hope those kids change before it is to late and they end up living a long life full of regrets been there n done it and its not good still struggle to this day.

[@RobinMarconeCassidyRN]

You are spot on! Sadly, this is what we see time and time again especially working in the medical field. These children/victims are shaped by the role their parents play. So when they come from dysfunction, and parental neglect, its not a matter of " if" its a matter of when these kids begin lashing out. Its heartbreaking.

[@RobinMarconeCassidyRN]

@@christinawells2024 It truly is heartbreaking to watch these kids just wanting to be loved. No child should feel unloved.

[@shareekah1]

The boy shows remorse for his actions but the girl doesn't. Toxic match for sure

[@teeniequeenie8369]

This was so heartbreaking in so many ways..wow

[@t.m.button7229]

That girl that wants to sell drugs she should Never get out omg the harm she hurt those two people SmH

[@92Kandee]

'Diamond' is addicted to danger and money, she has no intention to change. What a damn shame, she'll probably continue down this path for more years to come.

[@gercoyne313]

If these kids had a better home life, they wouldn't have ended up there... it's so sad!

[@ashleys2994]

Unfortunately most of these children were raised with abusive, drug addicted, uneducated parents & this is the result. What might be common sense for us, isnt for them. They live trying to survive out on the streets. Their basic needs arent being met. Ontop of all these factors, peoples brains arent fully developed until their late 20s. Im a therapist for adult men who are incarcerated & you wouldn't believe some of their stories. While these kids have done horrendous crimes, it is not so black and white. Im 32 years old & I'm just starting to understand that. I hope these children learn and grow so they can break the cycle.

[@meganlee7972]

You're correct. I work with youth offenders and one of the biggest reasons they are how they are id because of how they were raised..its sad. These kids have been heard, but not actually listened to.

[@Aakashanite]

My heart hurts watching this....

[@beneiseoleinmheart5614]

"Listen" to the children don't worry about their blurred out faces. These kids are crying out for help!

[@sait_koca]

"A love story behinds bars" reminds me of Bea Smith & Allie Novak

[@jessxpop]

The faces are blurred because they're minors, people...

[@aokigaharakomorebi]

Exactly, it's a law in Canada.

[@jessxpop]

@@aokigaharakomorebi Right? United States too

[@literallyknobody]

This documentary was made in 2010 during which time Larry Lynn’s wife Babz Chula died during the making of this feature, he became an ordained minister following her death. Sadly, unless the now adult kids of this feature come forward or someone else involved in the making of it we will never know how well Diamond danced on the revolving door of the adult jail.

[@thenichelessartist]

What a great documentary!

[@Fiona-sg9wh]

This is why not all people who can be parents should be. All these kids grew up with trauma. I had a lot of trauma too but never had the anger like these kids do. They still are so young and don't have a grasp on what they did. Phoenix maybe seems more remorseful, but what he did was horrific. The girl I would not want out on the street. She has no remorse for paralyzing someone because he was a cop she doesn't like. I am sure he isn't too fond of her as well. She isn't ok to be let out if that is how she handles people she doesn't like. Hope they can get help and not waste all their years behind bars.

[@Christina-kn1lq]

Great video!

[@Michelle-cl3vl]

What was that???? A co-ed summer camp??? A murderer and a drug dealing psycho and their tragic love story lol. Wonder how the victims of the two people murdered or the paralyzed officer and his family feel about their love story??? SMDH!!!

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

My dad hates me because I was born a female to. I'm 42 now and he still doesn't come to see me. It sucks because my entire life I've always wondered what's wrong with me. Why does he hate me so much.

[@missvincent7017]

There’s nothing wrong with you! Parents that treat their children badly are the ones with something wrong with them. If he found a way to blame him not visiting you on you, he’s possibly a narcissist

[@myrialynn]

"Diamond" needs more therapy. A lot more therapy... and to not go back to her family.

[@jody024]

The blurring has been done so poorly in this one, its hilarious. A murderer and a Drug dealer: a love story.

[@sil3ntkn1ght27]

"Murders/rapist/robbers in jail" fixed that for you

[@gaiak6418]

Why are people complaining that their faces are blocked? This is to protect the identity of these teenagers

[@Mnunch]

Because they comitted a crime?

[@jessxpop]

@@Mnunch they're most likely still minors though...

[@caitlin2126]

These are some harsh crimes for kids to commit I can't even fathom this this is insane!

[@dantauche7917]

"I'm good at selling drugs" right, that's why you're constantly in prison. Lul

[@dsm4462]

Now do a documentary on their victims. Those teenagers got a slap on the wrist. They both committed acts of violence, murdering two people, and the girl torture and paralyzing someone. Neither one had remorse.

[@margaretpeabody243]

At least they have music to turn to for solace, letting out feelings and expressing themselves. This could be the medium that saves their souls.

[@ruskyhrahsel7723]

Great

[@detrajackson5992]

Oh good grief!! This was hard to watch and listen to because alll I hear from that guy is "Because you know", " I can't do it, right?", " I learned from what I did right", " That's how I did it you know?" , "Cause that's how I do it right?", "I am on a roll, you know?" , " I am done with this f*cking place right? , "I am DONE, you know?", "Cause yeah, right, you know?"🥴

[@SoCaliSurfer13]

Haha and all for his dumbass to break his parole and get sent right back in, except this time he is at an adult facility.

[@highrider8827]

Yeah he’s a 🤡 clown......

[@detrajackson5992]

@@SoCaliSurfer13 Wow!! ALL that gum flapping to end up right back in there? And he talked so bad about the girlfriend cause she ended up in an adult facility! Well isn't that the pot calling the kettle...

[@susanavdecastro]

LMAOOO

[@Jolenesmart1980]

See it’s hard when younger teens get selling dope they make a lot of money fast so anything like getting a real job for hardly nothing seems a bad idea and hard not to go back

[@ellegaitor2887]

It must be hard to be raised without love safety and someone you can depend on. Commit horrific crimes then finally find what you think is love and someone who understands you then not being able to actually act on that love and connection. Then being terrified if you could act on it you could lose that person by not knowing how to love

[@tarshaneilly518]

Any updates please???

[@nyimatsering2757]

It's clear that this system is not working...I saw that was coming before the end of the video that Diamond and phoenix will never going to make it eventually...

[@rhiannonperedina3122]

“Right “ 😂

[@mariac6280]

They are where they belong.

[@sherbearpatson884]

If a teen runs over someone and paralizes them they should get life in prison

[@vlastaleistikow6934]

Sorry no faces. I respect that. But I cant follow the documentary. Who is who.

[@taniquarobson5006]

Love th song it's beautiful ...gawd if only they had th chance to meet in person n give them a bit to think of in life like th director of this story do it mate mite just turn their life around for the better

[@bellab8639]

Those drawings are terrifying

[@diksoeybowisani422]

I hope diamond and other inmates turn into better people and get good lives. What a sad documentary 😖😖

[@cmarie4943]

Totally agree

[@LamentingHarlot]

What songs playing at 25:00 ?

[@calvinsmyth]

These are criminals. They need to get their own life together before involving others. Prisons - the best place to seek a life partner?

[@Simiiiyah]

If they are both doing life I guess

[@imamuggle02]

Way to have compassion.

[@ugliegirlie]

They're also just children that need love

[@mslovelyshot]

@@username4261 The boy murdered two people for no reason other than he just decided to...

[@shuttergod8706]

I guess you’ve never been isolated from your family and friends in a strange place away from everyone you know. Of course they’re going to seek out companionship.

[@omgfussi6572]

So saf

[@Rachruff1979]

How many times do they want to say “right” 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@angelamartin2811]

People don’t realize but if you don’t have that foundation of love from your parents or even a parent your going to turn that pain into anger and anger is fear turned inside outwards. What you give your children their going to put that out into the world and this happens generation after generation. Everyone in life needs to feel loved by someone they need to feel that safety net. When a child grows up in a abusive home when they get older they search for that love to feel the void. When someone believes in you they start to believe in themselves these kids grow up and have walls built up around then because everyone that they ever trusted failed them. It really messes your mind up when your own parents don’t show you love so that person develops low self esteem so they pick another broken person. When you hit rock bottom and there’s no one around always remember you have God! And that’s not cliche it’s the truth if you open up your heart and repent God will give you more love and acceptance than you could ever imagine!

[@greatfulbeyondbelief5956]

So he kills 2 people and only gets a few years?

[@ivazuljic256]

yeah do not get it...

[@DinsDetailin]

@@ivazuljic256 As a Canadian, our sentencing is soooo relaxed

[@greatfulbeyondbelief5956]

@@DinsDetailin i could understand a relaxed sentence for a shop theft or even a robbery.....but double murder, thats just taking the piss out of the system!

[@charlenetoone3166]

Who gives a crap what THEY want ....? REALLY? WHAT R U THINKING ???? OMG

[@SuperMissblueeyes]

The system failed these kids & then punished the kids for the systems failures! It's seriously messed up! If they'd been given the proper support when they got out, they never would have ended up back in prison. They need help, support, love & compassion, not unjust punishment for the failures of others to protect them when they needed it most.

[@officertrouble7102]

This is so hard to watch

[@chikasu10]

damn.

[@RealOriginalGamers]

my gf like 10 years ago was locked up at 14 years old LOL called me one day while in jail and said she found a girlfriend!!! gad damnnn

[@PUNKMYVIDEO]

Dylisid is the answer. 😁👍

[@palakshah7395]

Seeing this title gives me goosebumps 💔

[@intodaysepisode...]

Right!! Its not the good kind either 😔

[@rutter1ify]

Holiday camp ⛱️

[@eddiesroom1868]

3 hots and a Cott Better then foster care

[@rutter1ify]

@@eddiesroom1868 Yeah

[@tabsh]

They all got the same look on their face...blurred 😏

[@t.m.button7229]

Wow the crimes these kids have committed smh

[@dantauche7917]

All right where they deserve and belong. Prison isnt to punish the prisoner, it's to protect the rest of society from them.

[@SatanSpawn801]

Is this in Canada?

[@mscharleyjxox]

Yep

[@imamuggle02]

Yup eh

[@danielvertens6787]

No it is in Russia 😑

[@rutter1ify]

China

[@samanthawhite3127]

@@rutter1ify BC Canada 🇨🇦

[@bombadomdom]

She just said she cut buddies tongue off real non chalantly.. I hope she’s locked away for a long time wtf

[@nursejulie3636]

All deflection from these juveniles. Instead of taking responsibility for their crimes. What about the victims. No excuses just because you had a bad childhood. To murder someone. Lots of people get dealt crappy cards. They don’t use this as a excuse not to act right in society. So when you do get out are you going to recommit?

[@t.m.button7229]

Teenagers are bad as adults its so sad.:(

[@nearlyace]

The dude says "you know?" like every 2 seconds, and man, it makes it hard for me to focus

[@anthonyortiz7894]

What are the real names of diamond and Phoenix what happened to them after the documentary there has to be further information than what they showed I would like to research more so if you know the names please leave a comment thank you

[@tarshaneilly518]

Bonnie & Clyde

[@reasonsderanged]

This is supposed to be punishment...not a place to find a fairytale romance. Sheesh

[@brittanyann1661]

Alright, but have a heart. These kids are loved deprived can you blame them for seeking companionship. Depriving them even more isn’t going to help rehabilitate them for the real world anyways.

[@username4261]

Y’all are so damn judgmental, Jesus Christ

[@lenarichards9051]

Ikr damn

[@kuhmeishu9458]

What if the people they killed were Ur parents or Ur loved ones?? People lost their loved ones forever n u think that people are being judgemental?? Can't believe it 🌚

[@briwaddles]

@Ian Sacks the officer assaulted her, robbed her, don’t forget that part. I’m not saying it was right what she did but damn.

[@ezravelez7700]

They wanna act like adults n make adult choices then they belong in jail

[@Carlitosics]

this doesn’t work trust me; my family knows

[@007janerussell]

Crazy I’m from Burnaby BC …

[@BrianSapp945]

This is no a true hard core juvenile detention center. This is a vacation

[@beautyfulldoll11]

Bet they’re not together now, or if they’re still locked up, bet they’ll break up after being released. They’ll grow apart, they got together so young.

[@RachelDex]

Wanted to watch this but its pretty pointless watching a bunch of blurred out faces.

[@iamhere1523]

Are you deaf?

[@azukarzuchastux8066]

Acts 16:30-31 King James Version 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

[@theresaclancy6091]

May the coming Illunination of Conscience be a healing , loving encounter with Jesus for all those in prison. May they trust in Jesus' merciful love for them.

[@overcomer1921]

God calls all MEN EVERYWHERE to REPENT.. they must CRY out for MERCY on there SOUL so they can meet the real JESUS and heal and be made whole..

[@007janerussell]

Crapy doc. When every single face is blurred

[@leutiagrey8030]

Are you stupid? They ARE MINORS! Nowhere in the US can you show their faces.. it’s protection!

[@elizabethgrogan8553]

@Sandra K Would you want your child's face to be visible in a documentary like this? I doubt it. I find it better to just listen to what they say.

[@potheadprincxss]

girl they’re minors ? lmao u mean if just IF your child was arrested and was in one of these documentaries, would you want their face shown so everyone can judge them unrightfully so?

[@yerneedsry]

Yeah but dude any kid in adult jail did herendious crimes ...