PRISONS & PRISONERS
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Requiem for a bad nigger / produced by Bruce Gossard.
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Blackout / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Examination of the news blackout which followed the storming of Attica prison. After the New York State Correction Department recaptured Attica State Prison, killing over 40 people in the process, a news blackout was imposed by state officials. Despite ifforts by reporters, lawyers, and medical teams to penetrate the prison walls, news from attica was…
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The Prison [Soledad] / C.J. Fitzharris and Fay Stender ; produced by David Stevens. (Episode 2 of 4)
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Voices from within: interviews with women serving long-term sentences in prison
Interviews with women serving long-term sentences at the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills, and are part of the group Long-termers Committee of the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills. They are fighting for Assembly Bill A 7017A and Senate Bill S5036A, legislation which would make it possible for prisoners serving…
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Women in chains
Debra Smith, Tousha Wiley, Dolores Scott and Johnny Morris from the Harriet Tubman Prison Movement discuss the situation of women in prison. The Harriet Tubman Prison Movement is a national movement of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asians and Native Americans who are mobilizing support on the outside to aid Blacks and all minority prisoners on…