Female juvenile offenders have the fastest growing rates of incarceration, and 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 prison in Illinois in order to tell this story. In this provocative and very personal feature documentary, AIMEE’S CROSSING, 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 sexual abuse, substance abuse, and mental health issues. 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 life for the better.

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