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Prison gangs and racism behind bars. Part 1 [videorecording (DVD)].

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Public Safety Canada Library

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DVDs

Alternate Title

Corrections digest : prison gangs and racism behind bars, part 1
Supermax : life in a super-maximum security prison.

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HV 9304 L54 2007d pt.2

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1 videodisc (25 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.

Note

Title from disc.
Originally broadcast in 1998 on ABC News Nightline as an episode of the program Supermax : life in a super-maximum security prison.

Summary

Prisons have become incubators for hate, where ethnic and white supremacist enclaves vie for control through violence and coercion directed along color lines. In part one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel talks with prisoners doomed to solitary confinement due to their gang affiliations. They discuss the dangers that drove them to join—and that keep them looking over their shoulders even in the so-called protective environment of a supermax prison. In part two, Mr. Koppel spends a night in solitary confinement to observe firsthand the effects of supermax on inmates—and to document the type of ex-convict that will one day be returned to society: racially intolerant, unrehabilitated, and psychologically and emotionally broken.

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