Prison Santa
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An interview with an inmate at Indiana State Prison who coordinates a program in which children can write a letter to Santa Claus and inmates respond.
Credits
Frank Koza (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: A reporter from WLS-TV’s Seven On Your Side interviews an Indiana State Prison inmate named Rich who describes a program he coordinates in which participating inmates answer Christmas mail from children. To the reporter’s frustration, Rich mistakenly refers to Seven On Your Side repeatedly as Action Seven. The piece concludes with an interview with the prison’s warden, Jack Raymond Duckworth.
Distributed by: WLS-TV
Subjects: Christmas; Communication; Holidays; Prisons; Santa Claus
Places: North America > United States > Indiana
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 309 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/11525
Notes: A reporter from WLS-TV’s Seven On Your Side interviews an Indiana State Prison inmate named Rich who describes a program he coordinates in which participating inmates answer Christmas mail from children. To the reporter’s frustration, Rich mistakenly refers to Seven On Your Side repeatedly as Action Seven. The piece concludes with an interview with the prison’s warden, Jack Raymond Duckworth.
Distributed by: WLS-TV
Subjects: Christmas; Communication; Holidays; Prisons; Santa Claus
Places: North America > United States > Indiana
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 309 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/11525
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:12