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Laredo and the law. 2000. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (52 min.). For over five years, 22-year-old Miguel Martinez has been languishing on death row in Huntsville, Texas, convicted of murdering businessman James Smiley and two young boys in Smiley's home. Intent on robbery, Martinez and two friends broke into what they thought would be an empty house. Martinez denied that he was responsible for the killings. The poorest of the three youths, he was the only one brought to trial. One of the accomplices was the son of a city judge who was saved from trial for giving state's evidence. The other, a youth who had been mixed up in drugs and satanism, was eventually arrested for a different crime and never faced the murder charges.This investigation by F. Ryden, who first met Miguel while filming Not Too Young to Die, calls into question the use of the death penalty, especially when the possibility exists that justice may not have been carried out in the court proceedings. A number of factors cast doubt on the trial. The citizens of Laredo were anxious for a conviction. The district attorney was running for re-election. Miguel was defended by an inexperienced lawyer. The boy who owned the murder weapons, a judge's son, was never brought to trial. The forensic expert who testified was found to have falsified testimony in other cases. The young Martinez talks solemnly about his years on death row, and clings to the hope that an appeal may be granted him. Streaming video
Let the doors be made of iron 19th-Century prison reform. 1987. 1 streaming video file (23 min.). This Academy Award-nominated program uses dramatic reenactments, old lithographs, and photographs to trace the fascinating history of the world's first full-scale penitentiary-Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia. Conceived as a humane alternative to the overcrowding and debauchery of smaller jails, the prison's fortress-like design and policy of separate confinement and meaningful labor became the correctional model for prisons worldwide. Important events in the prison's history are detailed, including the arrival of its first prisoner in 1829, and a visit by its only detractor-Charles Dickens. This is an interesting historical window on an early experiment in the humane treatment and rehabilitation of criminals. (23 minutes). Streaming video
Life behind bars. 1999. 1 streaming video file (29 min.). Are prisons supposed to rehabilitate convicts, punish them, or simply keep them off the streets? The answer depends on who is being asked. This program explores the current state of prisons in America and examines their conflicting mandates. The Directors of the National Prison Project of the ACLU and the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, the Governor of South Dakota, an Arizona sheriff, adult and juvenile inmates, and others consider issues such as the societal impact of mandatory sentencing and the prison-building boom. (29 minutes). Streaming video
Life sentence. 2008. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (31 min.). Recent statistics indicate that one in 100 Americans are incarcerated. This shocking figure impels us to look closely at our penal system. Tough sentencing rules and release policies have become the norm in the federal system, which is extremely punitive.Life Sentence lets us hear from six formerly incarcerated men and women, some of whom were sentenced as adolescents. They spent from twelve to twenty-six years in prison. Now they must find their way, economically and emotionally, to rebuild their lives after being behind bars, some from the age of sixteen.The film begins as each prisoner prepares for their first parole board hearing. Each is denied and must wait two years until their next hearing. They discuss what brought them to prison, the time spent there, and what it felt like being sentenced to decades of imprisonment. One of the most important opportunities while incarcerated was the ability to receive education. Just before Congress abolished federal financing for college programs in prisons in 1994, all six had completed associate, bachelor and master degrees. Now released, we see how these longtermers contribute to society and their communities, all of them working with other formerly incarcerated people. The film shows the potential of people, including those who have committed criminal acts, if they are given access to education and prepared for careers.Scholars, policy makers and advocates of reform discuss the great obstacles formerly incarcerated people face, including job and housing regulations and discrimination, sentencing policies, and lifetime parole. Streaming video
Lockdown - Fort Dodge. 2007. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). In the state of Iowa, offenders aged 18 to 26 are kept separate from the hardened adult prison population. This program profiles Fort Dodge, a correctional center supposedly free of the worst criminal influences. But even in medium-security conditions, 1,100 cohabitating convicts veer toward everything from foolishness to gang violence. With the look of a high school, Fort Dodge juggles a mix of juveniles, racially aligned gangs, and lower functioning inmates-all on the same yard. Getting transferred to the state's maximum-security prison is all too easy. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Gang wars-Inside Pelican Bay State Prison. 2006. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). When other California prisons can't handle their most violent gang members, they send them to Pelican Bay State Prison. This program takes viewers inside the notorious facility. From here, leaders of gangs such as Nuestra Familia, the Mexican Mafia, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerillas, and the Nazi Low Riders smuggle orders to lieutenants on the streets. These operatives, in turn, handle everything from drug-distribution businesses to assassinations-including hits taken out on gang rivals or even prosecutors. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Inside America's prisons. 2006. 1 videodisc (152 min.). "Plunge head-first into the gritty underworld of America's most fearsome prisons. America's prisons are teeming with dangerous and conniving criminals who stop at nothing to get their way. In this world of absolutes, predators stalk their next prey, gang commanders order hits from isolation, and inmates are armed with deadly weapons. Here, only the strong and devious survive. But the prisons are striking back. Institutional weapons of choice include state-of-the-art surveillance and old school isolation. Officers are armed to the hilt with steel batons and pepper spray." -- Container. DVD 4834
Lockdown - Ironwood State Prison. 2007. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). Located in the California desert, Ironwood Correctional Facility is a series of extremes. This program explores the overcrowded, understaffed prison, which is subject to brutally hot summers and powder-keg tensions. But a group of inmates among the population of 4,800 are dedicated to self-improvement, attending classes in the face of menacing opposition from gang members. When riots erupt in the withering 112-degree heat, many of the prison's 81 student inmates must make critical decisions that will affect their lives both inside and outside the prison walls. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Multnomah County Detention Center. 2007. 1 streaming video file (49 min.). Every day the Portland Police dragnet pulls in more thieves, drug dealers, and addicts from the most populated county in the state of Oregon. This program goes inside the Portland jail, which isn't just running out of room-it ran out a long time ago. With approximately 3,500 new bookings per month, or more than 100 bookings per day, the 700-capacity center lacks the space, the staff, and the resources to accommodate all of its prisoners. Each day, those with minor infractions are released to make room for the serious offenders. (49 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Predators behind bars. 2006. 1 streaming video file (52 min.). As leader of the Crips, the most powerful gang in Ohio's Lebanon Correctional Institution, Diedreikus Albert has mastered the prison system, turning it to his own advantage. This program follows the inmate through his daily life at the facility. With no respect for the law and little remorse for the senseless killing that landed him behind bars, Albert is doing time his way. He allows viewers inside the mind of a career criminal, showing how convicts get away with, among other things, smuggling drugs and weapons inside prison walls. (52 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Supermax: The baddest of the bad. 2006. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). Minnesota's Oak Park Heights represents a new breed of prison called Supermax, reserved for only the most dangerous, incorrigible offenders-many of whom are kept on semi-permanent lockdown. As a means of reducing tension, Oak Park Heights has developed a plan that allows many of these deadly criminals to leave their cells during the day-if they behave. This program shows how the facility's resident murderers, rapists, and arsonists respond to the narrowest sliver of freedom. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Tent city. 2007. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). A few years after he became sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joseph Arpaio reinstituted the use of convict chain gangs. He also found a way around the problem of prison overcrowding-with military-surplus tents and security fences. This program goes inside Arpaio's pride and joy, known as Tent City, where summer temperatures top 130 degrees and drop well below freezing on some winter nights. The scenes that take place here and on Arpaio's chain gang epitomize a detention industry in which cost-saving, primitive conditions are gaining favor. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown - Utah State Prison. 2007. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). In Utah, a local gang has drawn the ire of larger, national gangs. But these homegrown thugs aren't small-timers. Their brand of gang loyalty is so extreme that membership passes from generation to generation, and their yen for feuds and conflict has now spilled into Utah State Prison. Over 25 percent of its 4,000-plus inmates have gang ties, and the most active gangsters flaunt weapons, shed blood, and order hits from behind bars. Venturing inside, this program shows what happens when an inmate's gang and family are one and the same. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Lockdown women behind bars. 2006. 1 videodisc (45 min.). An inside look at California's Valley State Prison, a maximum-security prison for women. DVD 6070
Lock-up the prisoners of Riker's Island. 2004. 1 videodisc (75 min.). Provides an inside look at how prisoners live and how officials maintain order in America's largest jail complex. Profiles a variety of everyday activities. DVD 4600
Long walk of Nelson Mandela. 2012. 1 videodisc (120 min.). Frontline presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership, and life's method through intimate recollections with friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming himself in prison from an impetuous, risk-taking radical into a mature leader and statesman. DVD 9748
Making a comeback? The fight against recidivism. 2002. 1 streaming video file (21 min.). Marshall Allen is just one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who leave state or federal prisons and return to their home communities each year. He is typical of the majority of convicts in the U.S. in that he served time on a drug charge-in his case, possession of crack cocaine. He is also not unusual in the failure of his first attempt to make it on the outside. But a second term behind bars has hardened his resolve to succeed. This ABC News program illustrates the hurdles and hardships facing paroled felons through the story of one man, a nonviolent offender who, like so many others, is trying to salvage what remains of his life. (21 minutes). Streaming video
Missouri's different approach to juvenile justice. 2009. 1 streaming video file (41 min.). In Missouri, a different method of juvenile detention has seen surprisingly successful results, trading in orange jumpsuits and cell blocks for therapists and dorm rooms. This edition of Primetime spends a year with the hard-core offenders at Waverly Regional Youth Center and Rosa Parks Center to see how a combination of nurturing and discipline are transforming inmates into potentially productive members of society-and for half the average national cost of juvenile incarceration. Provided with a strict and stable environment for perhaps the first time in their lives, these damaged young convicts are coming to terms with their past so they can pursue a better future. (41 minutes). Streaming video
Modern marvels prisons. 2000. 1 streaming video file (45 min.). This Modern Marvels program looks at the history of prisons and how their structure still reflects the original intent of stark punishment. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes). Streaming video
Mothers in prison. 2007. 1 streaming video file (52 min.). Streaming video
Mr. Death: The rise and fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 2000. 1 videodisc (92 min.). Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado, and absurd testimony reach national media prominence. Ironically, what Leuchter thought was going to be an apex in his career only ruins it. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 449
New gulag.19 96. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (30 min.). In the United States there are five thousand prisons and one and a half million prisoners. The prison system already costs thirty billion dollars per year to maintain and will escalate as stiffer sentences and tougher treatment are being demanded for criminals. Some estimate that half of all Americans will be incarcerated by the year 2050. This hard-hitting film shows that building and maintaining prisons has become an industry. Private companies are running them for profit often at the expense of any amenities such as recreation and rehabilitation services. In rural communities, prisons are welcomed for providing jobs and markets for a variety of goods needed in prison. In a high security prison in Oklahoma, death-row prisoners are kept for years in bunker-like cells for 23 hours a day. The warden is proud of his tough and mean system, which is condemned by human rights groups. In Phoenix the toughest sheriff in the West feeds his inmates on thirty cents a day and works them in chain gangs. He boasts that he has the cheapest run jail in America. Alvin Brunstein of the ACLU and Marc Mauer, criminologist, challenge the theory that tougher prisons deter crime. Streaming video
No tears. 2011. 1 videodisc (20 min.). A dcoumentary based on the eyewitness accounts of North Korean defectors who describe the country's top court sentence for a 40-year-old man to public execution. He was charged with stealing six cows, or deliberate damage to national wealth. DVD 9253
No tomorrow. 2010. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (56 min.). No Tomorrow focuses on the murder of Risa Bejarano, the principal subject of Aging Out (include URL), an earlier film about teenagers leaving foster care. No Tomorrow explores how Aging Out unexpectedly documented the last year of Risa's life, and became the centerpiece of a chilling homicide investigation and death penalty trial. Juan Jose Chavez went on trial in 2007, in Los Angeles Superior Court in front of Judge Lance Ito, who had become famous for presiding over the O.J. Simpson trial. In one of the trial's most dramatic moments, the district attorney showed Aging Out in order to humanize the victim and convince the jury to impose the death penalty. While the trial focuses on whether Risa's murderer deserves to die, several leading death penalty experts address the broader question of whether the state should be empowered to kill him. Ultimately, the unique film-within-a-film perspective of No Tomorrow takes viewers inside a suspenseful death penalty trial and challenges beliefs about capital punishment. Streaming video
Not too young to die. 1996. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (53 min.). The United States is one of only seven countries, including Iraq and Bangladesh, whose justice system allows the execution of juveniles convicted of crime. Today there are thirty-three juveniles on death row in eleven states. Here is a critical look at a highly controversial subject.This film takes us into death row in those states where juveniles may be executed. Each story is complicated. The youths have all committed repugnant crimes. Allen Hain locked two victims in the trunk of the car and burnt the vehicle. The victim’s parents express their anger and feel death is a fitting punishment. Yet we learn that Allen who was sixteen at the time of the crime, had a mental age of fourteen, came from an alcoholic family and lived on the street. His caseworker feels he could be rehabilitated.Although the United States subscribes to a U.N. international law that prohibits execution for crimes of juveniles, Attorney General Janet Reno explains that each state has the right to dictate policy on this issue. Juveniles have been executed somewhere in America since 1642. With violent juvenile crime on the upswing, is execution the answer? Streaming video
Obeying or resisting authority: A psychological retrospective. 2007. 1 streaming video file (36 min.). Echoing the infamous Milgram experiment from the 1960s, this ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure urges men and women to inflict pain. Test administrator and social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger interprets the disturbing findings. The program also analyzes the 1971 Stanford prison experiment as well as the 2004 hoax in which a McDonald's manager and her fiance-directed by a caller impersonating a police officer-strip-searched and abused an employee. Original footage from all of these occurrences is included, along with present-day commentary from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who designed the Stanford test. Finally, the program explores the ethics of using human participants in psychological tests. (36 minutes). DVD 5046 and Streaming video
Old enough to do time juvenile justice policies. 1987. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (58 min.). "If you’re old enough to do the crime, you’re old enough to do the time." This documentary investigates the results of this stern policy, a departure from earlier attitudes when juvenile courts were established specifically to help young people reform. We see juveniles as young as thirteen being tried as adults and incarcerated with adult criminals. This program also shows us four alternative correctional programs; one where minors are referred to community boards instead of the courts; a second, based on a wilderness "outward bound" program; a third, based on a residential model; and a fourth, a "tracking" program which keeps close tabs on youthful offenders. The documentary concludes that by locking up juveniles we gain some short term relief from crime, but in the long run we may be giving up on children who could have been turned around. Streaming video
Omar & Pete. 2005. 1 videodisc (71 min.). Examines the struggles of William "Pete" Duncan and Leon "Omar" Mason, two men who have spent the majority of their years in and out prison, to go straight once and for all. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2215
On the outside: Social challenges for teens reentering society. 2008. 1 streaming video file (24 min.). The importance of guidance programs for prisoners can't be overstressed-they help society as well as the individual reentering it. Following young people who have been discharged from Rikers Island Academy, this program focuses on the payoffs that come from educational and counseling services for those behind bars. A lively peer-to-peer class setting is featured, while the process of court-ordered drug-testing is illustrated in detail by a visit to an ex-offender's home-highlighting a central concern of many young people trying to find meaning and success on the outside. A wealth of insight is also provided on the advantages gained from structured vocational and recreational programs. A Cambridge Educational Production. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act. (23 minutes) Follows educational and program recommendations provided by the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice. Correlates to prevention principles for the National Institute on Drug Prevention. Streaming video
Order in the court. 2001. 1 streaming video file (28 min.). In this program, various legal experts explain pretrial and trial procedures, pointing out along the way differences in juvenile proceedings. Judges and lawyers navigate the pretrial process, beginning with the establishment of probable cause and formal charging by grand jury. Indictment, pretrial release, bail, and arraignment are also discussed. Such concepts as an alibi, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt are clearly explained. Finally, a panel of experts comments on a sentencing hearing and punishment, along with the defendant's constitutional right to appeal. A Cambridge Educational Production. (28 minutes). Streaming video
Order. 2002. 1 streaming video file (60 min.). In this profile of the psychology of leadership, a new prisoner joins the group in lockup, a master set of the guards' keys is stolen, and the two most forceful prisoners go head-to-head in a struggle for authority. Contains harsh, inflammatory, and explicit language. A BBCW Production. (60 minutes). Streaming video
Parole: Getting out and staying out. 2006. 1 streaming video file (16 min.). Prison life is hard-but for most ex-convicts, life on the outside is tough, too. This video follows paroled prisoners as they re-enter civilian life and face challenges both large and small. Upon release from jail, the lives of these young men are suddenly filled with critical decisions. Some are dreaded, such as the split-second choice of whether or not to engage in violence-the wrong choice will put them back behind bars. Other dilemmas are unexpected, like having to decide what to wear every morning. The program provides an eye-opening look at the typical parolee's struggle to find work, stay away from drugs and former friends, and maintain a positive attitude about the future. (16 minutes). Streaming video
Peter Jennings reporting-Guantanamo. 2004. 1 streaming video file (43 min.). According to the Bush Administration, the war on terror requires new tactics and new thinking-including departure from the Geneva Conventions when deemed necessary. Guantanamo shows how that policy is implemented at Camp Delta, how it is vigorously defended in the name of national security, and how it is contested just as passionately on behalf of personal freedom and human rights. Reporter Peter Jennings interviews Gitmo's commanding general and former Administration insiders, shedding light on decision-making within the White House-while firsthand accounts of experiences inside the prison compose the darkest dimensions of the story. (43 minutes). Streaming video
Predictor: Genetic screening. 2002. 1 streaming video file (50 min.). To what extent do genes determine human behavior? Human destiny? With vivid imagery and fascinating examples, this program looks at how genetic screening yields answers to riddles past and future. A woman discovers that a single letter change in the genome has been responsible for her family's generations-old curseof deformed hands. Dr. Hugh Montgomery of University College Hospital, London, screens the DNA of army recruits for the ACE or endurance gene which may affect their longevity as well as their basic training. Dr. Dean Hammer of the National Institutes of Health explains his search for a thrill-seeker gene, D4DR. And attorney Daniel Summer argues for leniency for his death-row client because his DNA predisposed him to a life of crime. Professor Lee Silver of Princeton University and Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse also provide commentary. A BBC Production. (50 minutes) . Streaming video
Prison for kids. 2002. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (27 min.). In a Phoenix, Arizona penitentiary, Sheriff Joe Arpalo has initiated an extremely controversial deterrent for juvenile delinquency, called "Smart Tents." It involves incarcerating children who have broken the law in a real prison for two days, to show them what they could become as adults if they don t clean up their act. The sheriff's goal is "... to show the kids how you live if you commit any crime. Not just drugs, any crime. They are going to live in a tough, tough jail system. They don t like it. I hope they will never forget the nights they spent in the tents, eating bologna, wearing the striped uniform, being awake at night with the dogs. They learn the lesson like that. The parents and teachers go through their experience with them, so they're being educated too." Neither the ACLU nor the Justice Department likes what Sheriff Arpalo is doing, but he feels he is accountable only to the public which elected him. One mother is sure her 13-year old son has been affected by the experience and hopes he will straighten out because of it. She insists she will bring him back repeatedly to make sure he understands the lessons to be learned there. Streaming video
Prison gangs and racism behind bars. 1998. 1 streaming video file (40 min.). Prisons have become incubators for hate, where ethnic and white supremacist enclaves vie for control through violence and coercion directed along color lines. In part one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel talks with prisoners doomed to solitary confinement due to their gang affiliations. They discuss the dangers that drove them to join-and that keep them looking over their shoulders even in the so-called protective environment of a supermax prison. In part two, Mr. Koppel spends a night in solitary confinement to observe firsthand the effects of supermax on inmates-and to document the type of ex-convict that will one day be returned to society: racially intolerant, unrehabilitated, and psychologically and emotionally broken. (40 minutes). Streaming video
Prison lullabies. 2003. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (82 min.). Prison Lullabies is the remarkable portrait of four women living on the bad side of luck, struggling with drug addiction, arrested for dealing and prostitution and serving prison time with one common bond: they are pregnant. Amy, Monique, Joann and Ann Marie -- they all have given birth behind bars. For these women who are on intimate terms with sexual abuse, poverty and addiction, the Taconic Correctional Facility in New York State offers a rare gleam of hope. One of only five prisons in the U.S. to provide a nursery program for inmates, Taconic allows the women to keep their babies for the first eighteen months of their lives while insisting that the mothers participate in a rigorous series of classes that range from basic child care to anger management, and drug counseling. Each woman is released from prison in the course of filming. Each must make life altering choices: whether to find a job and break the cycle of relapse and re-arrest that has led to the loss of her other children, or pick up the crack-pipe, abandon the child and return to the streets. Prison Lullabies addresses these issues by allowing the inmates to relate their own stories. Streaming video
Prison pups. 2006. Ethnographic video online. 1 online resource (58 min.). Streaming video
Prison town USA. 2007. Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (75 min.). In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. "Prison Town, USA" tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that tries to resuscitate its economy by building a prison -- with unanticipated consequences. Nestled in the picturesque foothills of the California Sierras, Susanville once thrived on logging, ranching and agriculture.Today the Susanville area hosts three prison complexes housing more than 11,000 inmates, with plans for more to come. The inmate population is more than one-and-a-half times the number of local residents. "Prison Town, USA" follows the fortunes of people and families in Susanville over the course of two years. Among those portrayed are: a laid-off mill worker turned guard; a tenacious dairy owner fighting to retain his contract with the prison; a man on parole who can t find a job to support his family;local businessmen who were given false hopes; and prison-boosting politicians. The resulting story is one of hard choices and unanticipated consequences. As Susanville s good-hearted country-boys-turned-prison-guards soon learn, life outside the walls is developing eerie parallels to life on the inside. DVD 6337 and Streaming video
Prisoners of age. 2004. 1 streaming video file (49 min.). Raising complex and timely questions about the warehousing of America's prison population, this program accompanies photographer Ron Levine on his mission to depict the physical, emotional, and psychological conditions of aging inmates-including those nearing death. Levine focuses his work on Alabama's Hamilton Institute for the Aged and Infirm, the first prison created specifically for elderly convicts. Through Levine's documentation and interviews, the humanity of those incarcerated emerges in poignant detail, leading viewers to assess their own beliefs about rehabilitation, victims' rights, and how far society's punishment should go. (50 minutes). Streaming video
Project X - the castration experiment. 2000. Eye for Justice: Filmakers library online. 1 online resource (51 min.). Since 1996, six American states have voted in legislation to castrate sex offenders, either physically or chemically. Is it treatment, or punishment? Or is it both? Castration has been tried many times in Europe and the United States over the past century. In the present experiment, states are trying to save money. To reduce prison bills, castrated rapists and pedophiles are being released back into the community. Will the public be safe? Many doctors, rape survivors and prosecutors think not. If rapists are motivated more by power than sex, then castration may lead them to commit even more violent sexual assaults, including mutilation and murder. This uncompromising documentary takes a tough look at a tough subject. Member of a series: Eye for Justice (Series). Streaming video
Prozivanje duhova: Calling the ghosts. 2007 1 videodisc (63 min.). Two women survivors of Omarska Detention Camp describe the camp and the situation in Bosnia and Herzagovnia. Their release and recovery process are also described. DVD 6398
Quiet rage: The Stanford prison experiment. 2004. 1 videodisc (50 min.). Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue. Documentary includes new film, flashback editing, and follow-ups 20-years later, revealing the chronology of the transition of good into evil, of normal into the abnormal. Also includes 70 image slide show of archival photographs from the study. DVD 5025 and Streaming video.