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  1. Women in Prison (1964 Film)

    Director
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Women’s prisons in Britain: Holloway, Askham Grange open prison and Styal semi-secure prison showing prisoners, warders and life in prison with comments by some of the people involved.*

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  2. Media Screen Round-up July 2017

    Date
    7 Aug 2017, 15:19
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. This month the selection takes in...

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  3. Prisons Progress (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Law
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min.

    Examines the development of the Prison Service, looking at prison reform, the bringing of prisons under the Prison Commission’s control in 1878, and the 1949 Criminal Justice Act, which ushered in a more...

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  4. Beautiful Sentence (2011)

    Director
    Suzanne Cohen
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies

    Female prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn, writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s prison in Middlesex....

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  5. Who Will Cast the First Stone? (1988 Video)

    Director
    Ahmed A Jamal; Sabiha Sumar
    Producer
    Ahmed A Jamal; Sabiha Sumar
    Subject
    Politics & government; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Discusses the impact of Islamisation on women in Pakistan, particularly laws relating to extra-marital sex which is now a crime against the state, punishable by stoning to death. Women in prison, or out on...

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  6. Rape (1993 Video)

    Director
    Ben Fox
    Subject
    Psychiatry; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Asks if there is anything to be gained from survivors of rape meeing convicted rapists. Follows a rapist through ten weeks of therapy in Grendon Underwood Prison, the only prison in Britain with a special...

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  7. Safe Custody (1998 Video)

    Director
    Catherine Masud
    Producer
    Catherine Masud; Tareque Masud
    Subject
    Development studies; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    A study of ‘safe custody’ detention in prisons in Bangladesh. Thousands of people are held, it is claimed, for their own protection, but they often held there for years before their cases are heard....

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  8. Tuc Equal Pay Archive (2007)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.00

    The TUC Equal Pay oral history archive consists of eight filmed interviews with women and union representatives who have won important equal pay victories in the last 50 years. Each of the stories has...

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  9. Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Peter Brook
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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  10. Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Arnold Shapiro
    Subject
    Law; Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. ? min., 2000 sale: US$29.95 (+p&p)

    Second update of SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978), in which men and women who as juvenile offenders 20 years earlier met face-to-face hardened criminals in Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. Narrated by Danny Glover.

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