Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Life Behind Bars

Are prisons supposed to rehabilitate convicts, punish them, or simply keep them off the streets? The answer depends on who is being asked. This program explores the current state of prisons in America and examines their conflicting mandates. The Directors of the National Prison Project of the ACLU and the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, the Governor of South Dakota, an Arizona sheriff, adult and juvenile inmates, and others consider issues such as the societal impact of mandatory sentencing and the prison-building boom. (29 minutes)

Tell a Friend!

Your Name:
Your Email:
Your Friend's Email:
Your Message:
We respect your privacy and will not use your friend's address without permission.

Item#: BVL10167
Copyright date: ©1999
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-2494-4

Part of the Series : Prisons: Questioning the System


DVD	$99.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming	$149.93
3-Year Streaming	$99.95

For additional digital leasing and purchase options
contact our Sales department at 800-322-8755 or sales@films.com.

Prices include public performance rights.
Not available in Asia.

Related Titles

Crimes and Punishments: A History

This controversial documentary traces the often brutal history of criminal punishment from the medieval era through today. Early lithographs show in shocking detail the excessive punishments applied in pre-modern times for minor crimes. We see how mo...(more details)

DVD	$149.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming	$224.93
3-Year Streaming	$149.95

Women Behind Bars: Rehabilitation or Retribution?

Today in the United States women are the fastest-growing prison population. This CBS News production offers a rare glimpse into a world that is based on retribution rather than rehabilitation and in which the rules of survival in prison are often tou...(more details)

DVD

$149.95

Supermax, a Prison Within a Prison

Totally isolated from the outer world and deprived of virtually all forms of meaningful activity and social contact, inmates idle away their years in a limbo of concrete, steel, fluorescent light, and little else. In part one of this program, convict...(more details)

DVD	$149.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming	$224.93
3-Year Streaming	$149.95

Kids Behind Bars

Too young to drive, but old enough to kill. What happens to children convicted of felonies? How and where are they incarcerated? Can they be helped? And does their punishment really fit their crimes? In this program, judges, legal counsel, law enforc...(more details)

DVD	$99.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming	$149.93
3-Year Streaming	$99.95

See additional titles in Criminal Justice System