Violence: Prison Series 1
Catalogue Number: BAM1339
Producer: Blue Ant Media
Producing Agencies: Channel Four Television Corp.
Subject: Criminal Justice & Law, Current Events, Documentary, Health, Health and Medicine, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Social Studies, Sociology, Violence
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Copyright Year: 2018
Running Time: 48:00
**Contains course language**
Every day Durham prison staff must deal with assaults on fellow prisoners and on staff members. The atmosphere is volatile because as a reception prison Durham receives many new prisoners every day. On admission often little is known about the prisoners’ background, they can arrive emotionally unstable from the courts – often with private scores to settle. Yet within this turbulent atmosphere the staff battle not just to restore law and order – but also to encourage prisoners to confront their violent ways and carve out a better more peaceful future.
Filmed over 7 months, PRISON tells the human story on both sides of the door: staff and prisoners, and the real issues facing them all.
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