TO the outside world, university student Natalie seems like your average young woman determined to go far in life; she is studying policing and criminology but has a lot more experience than most.
Ever since she was 13, Natalie has been in and out of the criminal justice system.
It has taken her nine years, but she has stopped offending and turned her life around and in this documentary, for the Crime and Punishment season, she is examining the impact prison has had on other young adult offenders.
She meets Sephton, who was also 13 when he left home, with his street life leading to gangs, drugs and spells in prison. After so long trapped in a cycle of reoffending, and only breaking it when he was 24, he is now struggling to adjust to outside life – and he puts it down to anxiety.
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