The football sequences were directed by Andy Sidaris, acknowledged at the beginning of the ending credits with the credit "Football Action Filmed by The Sidaris Company".
This TV movie was also made as a pilot for a potential series that was not picked up.
The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice maintains six Youth Center correction facilities; Illinois Youth Center St. Charles is one of the six and was opened in December, 1904. In 2012, it had a capacity for three hundred forty-eight juvenile males with an average daily population of three hundred twenty-eight boys, with an average age of sixteen.