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Profits of punishment / Australian Film Finance Corporation presents ; a Paradigm Pictures production ; produced in association with SBS Independent ; directed and co-produced by Catherine Scott ; produced by Pat Fiske ; writers, Catherine Scott and Alison Lyssa.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wackenhut Corporation.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Corrections.
- Contracting out.
- United States.
- Corrections--United States--States--Contracting out.
- Privatization--United States.
- Privatization.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- 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:
- Dominated by a handful of American-based corporations including Wackenhut Corrections, the business of private prisons is now the most volatile and powerful industry in the U.S. This film contrasts the glitzy commercial arena of the private prison industry with the world of the inmates on the inside. In the process, it exposes a recession-proof industry where money is made out of the deprivation of liberty.
- Participant:
- Featuring George Wackenhut.
- Credits:
- Editors, Andrew Arestides and Catherine Scott ; director of photography, Stephen Broadhurst ; composer, Davood A. Tabrizi.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited and Scott/Fiske, c2000; previously released in 2001.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 2, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- if-prof Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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