Engineering supermax prisons
By: produced and directed by Pip Gilmour, written by Noah Nicholes, edited by Bill Lattanzi ; produced by Powderhouse Productions for TLC
Contributors: Pelican Bay State Prison (Calif.); Learning Channel; Powderhouse Productions; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: SSE 604 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Prisons; Design and construction; Prison administration; United States
Description: Prisons today have to deal with violent prisoners that refuse to obey the rules.  In an effort to protect the staff and other inmates engineers have had to design and build high-tech super-maximum security units.  Examples shown of the new SuperMax Prisons include California's Pelican Bay Prison and Massachusetts' Souza Baranowski Prison.
Notes: Narrator: Rodd Houston.

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