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Portrays a number of prisoners and ex-prisoners of the New York state prison system. Some of them have organised to reform the prison system, including Eddie Ellis, a former ‘Black Panther’ imprisoned...
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...
Eight-part western series made for Italian television and based on the popular Belgian/French comic strip Lucky Luke created by Morris. The Dalton brothers, serving time in prison, present ‘highlights from...
Documents the landmark 1971 study on the power of social situations in which Dr Philip Zimbardo created a mock prison, randomly dividing a group of students into two groups - prisoners and guards. Shows how...
Alternates clips of convicts and teenagers from the original SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978) with interviews of the same people ten years later. The goal of the origianl programme was to steer young offenders away...
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...
The original 1978 television documentary SCARED STRAIGHT! followed 17 juvenile offenders as they learnt first-hand the harsh realities of prison life from ‘lifers’ at the Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison...
Filmed over a period of three months in a Californian prison for 17-21-year-old male offenders where an ostensibly liberal administration is turning young delinquents into institutionalised criminals. Two of...
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.
Feature film derived from John Herbert’s stage play of the same name. Smitty, a young and naive young man, is sent to a reformatory prison for six months. He is assigned a cell with Queenie, a drag queen,...
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