He was one of the ringleaders in a riot at Rochester borstal. Jed served time in a borstal in Manchester in 1960. Brendan Behan was to be adviser for scenes set at Borstal Prison. Two girls escape from an open borstal. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. He escaped and was returned to borstal. He wrote about the experience in the memoir "Borstal Boy". In 1921 the prison was converted into a Borstal. The images included photographs of boys in Portland Borstal and sado-masochistic images of boys. She also speaks with a lisp pronouncing "borstal" as "borthtal" and a West Country accent. His autobiographical novel "Borstal Boy" followed in 1958. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records. It is a remake of the British borstal film, "Scum". Behan expressed his affection for Father Doyle in the memoir "Borstal Boy". As a teenager, he served time in a borstal for possessing live ammunition.