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The Reentry Project. Aimee's Crossing
Female juvenile offenders have the fastest growing rates of incarceration;
yet, media access to their stories is extremely limited because they
are minors. However, Governor Rod Blagojevich, of Illinois, has granted
Academy Award®-nominated and national Emmy award-winning filmmaker
Tod Lending (Nomadic Pictures) unprecedented access to a female juvenile
detention center (prison) in Illinois in order to tell this story. In
this provocative and very personal feature documentary, Lending will
focus on juvenile offender Aimee Myers, and her family, through her
first year of incarceration and a year after her release. Lending will
film her therapy sessions and examine how the juvenile justice system
contends with her history of domestic and sexual abuse, substance abuse,
and mental health issues (she is diagnosed as bipolar). After Aimee's
release, the film will examine what support she requires from her family,
the justice system, and her community in order to change her negative
behaviors and become a productive citizen.
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