America's brutal prisons / produced and directed by Nick London ; Channel 4 International.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

London, Nick, film director, film producer.

Davies, Deborah, interviewer.

Channel 4 International.

Icarus Films.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Abuse of--United States.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Abuse of.

Imprisonment.

Evaluation.

Corrections.

Prisons.

Correctional personnel.

United States.

Torture--United States.

Torture.

Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Correctional personnel--United States.

Prisons--United States--Evaluation.

Corrections--United States--Evaluation.

Imprisonment--United States--Evaluation.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (48 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Visits correctional institutions in Texas, Florida and California, uncovering penal systems with deeply ingrained cultures of punishment, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards. The film features videos recorded by prison surveillance cameras and correction officers themselves, supplemented by interviews with former prisoners, a warden, a prison doctor, inmates' relatives, attorneys and former correction officers who have broken the code of silence.

Credits:

Reporter, Deborah Davies ; original music, Elizabeth Parker ; editor, David Howell.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Channel 4 International, ©2005.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 14, 2016).

Publisher Number:

if-brut Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.