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The March of Time synopsis: The United States has long been waging an unceasing crusade against crime - a crusade to apprehend the lawbreaker and put him safely away behind iron bars. But another kind of...
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...
Independent feature film farce. Jack Bandrowsky (Pine) has just finished a performance as Iago in Verdi’s Otello. Marvin (Nobbs) is a naive audience member who fails to understand that the characters are...
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...
Prisoners in the modern prison of Gartree, Leicestershire, discuss their ideas on morals and religion, and what they value in their family and working lives. Visually, the film provides information about a...
Looks at a correctional institution, the aim of which is to rehabilitate prisoners. The inmates lead normal family lives and study courses designed to help them in the outside world.
How five |RA prisoners escaped from Whitemoor - supposedly Britain’s most secure prison.
Traces, in retrospect, the short life of a 19-year-old girl (Gale) from her abandonment by her mother at 6 months to her death in the basement of a derelict house in Chelsea from an overdose of drugs. Gale,...
Describes the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. During his eight years of imprisonment, Juan Carlos’ morale was sustained by the knowledge that groups such...
Story of Carol Rigby, who in 1978 set fire to a wastebin while working as a nurse at the National Theatre, London. Convicted of arson and sent to Broadmoor, she examines what drove her to the point of...
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