Trauma: Prison Series 2
Catalogue Number: BAM1343
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, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Copyright Year: 2020
Running Time: 47:00
**Contains course language**
In this final episode of the award-winning series director Paddy Wivell is behind the walls of HMP Foston Hall, home to 300 women charged with everything from non-payment of fines to murder. Here he discovers that over half of women in prison are suffering from the effects of long-term emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.
To tackle these issues, Foston’s regime embraces a remarkable new prisoner-led therapy group. It’s lead by the no-nonsense Sonia who’s inside for attempted murder, “Prison saved my life, it’s what you make it”. But even Sonia's got her work cut out with Scouser Janine who had to be forcibly removed from her last course “I get angry because I’ve not dealt with my s—t. Normal people get three months for shoplifting; I get two years because I get angry and do the security guard in.” This episode, in turn hilarious and heart wrenching proves in Sonia’s words “there’s hope for everybody.”
This follow up series from Spring Films builds on the success of PRISON by turning its gaze to the women’s estate and documenting the extraordinary work of the Governor and her staff in attempting to turn prisoner’s lives around.
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