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  1. 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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  2. Testimony (1998 Video)

    Director
    Ron Orders
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Moved by Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso’s story of 34 years in prison, singer Annie Lennox tells his story in a filmed conversation.

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  3. Double Sentence (1973 Film)

    Director
    Christine Fox
    Subject
    Law; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the situation of a young wife whose husband is sent to prison and the treatment she receives from society.

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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. Gruvberget: Sweden’s Revolutionary Prison (1972 Film)

    Subject
    Law; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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.

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  6. Carry on Escaping (Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

    How five |RA prisoners escaped from Whitemoor - supposedly Britain’s most secure prison.

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  7. Burma Vj (2010)

    Director
    Anders Ostergaard
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £9.99

    A remarkable documentary that tells the story of the Burmese photojournalists who secretly videotaped events during the Buddhist monks’ September 2007 uprising against the military regime, and who risk...

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  8. Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

    David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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  9. Little Dorrit (2008)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £34.99

    A television version of the novel by Charles Dickens adapted into fourteen episodes by Andrew Davies. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence...

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  10. Malcolm X: El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b/w. 60 min., 1997 sale: £19.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Traces the life of Malcolm X, from Harlem street hustler and prison inmate to militant Muslim convert, to self-made world leader who, before his suspicious death in 1965, found himself increasingly at odds...

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