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Within the walls of the juvenile prison, the clinical psychologist is confronted with the reality of the particular clinical practice that supposes the anthropological as well as psychopathological dimension. The psychic and social life of detained adolescents is organized around taboos and particular prohibitions that reign within a highly complex collective hierarchy with an overdetermined structure. The clinical and anthropological question emerges: What are the psychic functions of these enigmatic taboos, or why the almost absolute necessity of their existence for incarcerated adolescents? To try to answer this question, or at least to open up the discussion on this subject, it is important, on the one hand, to discern the very specific space of the prison, and on the other hand to take into consideration the crisis that a teenager goes through under conditions of rupture and violent separation from his family. Following a transgression committed, the meeting of these two realities, that of the prison and that of the psychic life of teenagers, creates an extraordinary clinical situation, which requires a particular kind of listening from a clinical psychologist, as well as a handling of transference within the penitentiary framework.