I'm reading Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, an autobiograhical novel about an IRA teenager locked up in a borstal (youth prison) back in 1939. Not a classic, but a fairly interesting portrayal of the English borstal system and the problems between Ireland and the UK.
The story itself might work better on a reader at the age of the narrator (16).
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