rikers island (n.y.)

Young Martin Stokes has been locked up in Rikers Island for five interminable months for an unintentional crime. After he is caught in a razor fight between two inmates, he is transferred to a different part of the prison where he gets the chance to attend high school and meets a teacher who wants to help him.

Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.