16mm Filmography
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Self-governing prisons

In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman explains that the failure of the American prison system is due to attempts to induce reform through external processes of security, harsh discipline and regimented life. Scudder and Lohman discuss the progress gained in self-governing prisons where the inmates’ role is changed from one of responding to orders to one of a creative source. Films are used to show inmates in various prison settings and an inmate is interviewed to bring out his feelings about these types of prisons.

More in In COMMUNITY OF THE CONDEMNED

  1. ALTERNATIVE TO IMPRISONMENT
  2. An Integrated Correctional System
  3. COUNTY JAIL: INTRODUCTION TO CRIME
  4. FORGOTTEN ONES: FAMILIES OF INMATES
  5. GOING OUT OF PRISON
  6. SPIRITUAL LIFE IN PRISONS
  7. THE TRAINING OF DOCTORS
  8. WHO RUNS THE PRISONS?
  9. Classification and segregation in prisons 1958
  10. Size of penal institutions 1958
  11. A comprehensive prison system 1959
  12. After jail, what? 1959
  13. Is prison work a profession? 1959
  14. Self-governing prisons 1959
  15. Training schools 1959
  16. Women behind bars 1959
  17. EX-CON 1997

Related films

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, genre, description, catalog record
  2. Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62) — title, catalog record

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