Some gossip is mentioned that a convict's sister was "paying off" for her brother, In other words providing sexual favors.

A man is hit over the head with a hammer by a young boy, causing a skull fracture and knocking him out. A fistfight breaks out in a boy's dormitory. And a juvenile inmate is flogged with a cat o' nine tails off screen; bloody whipmarks are seen on his back as he lays in the reformatory hospital.

A breakout occurs by inmates at the reformatory; they plan to confront the warden and possibly kill him.