The 100 follows descendants of post-apocalyptic survivors from a space habitat, the Ark, who return to Earth nearly a century after a devastating nuclear apocalypse; the first people sent to Earth are a group of juvenile delinquents who encounter another group of survivors on the ground.
So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable. After arriving on a new planet, our heroes found a place where they hoped to try again.