Prison gangs and racism behind bars
By: [produced by] ABC News
Contributors: Films for the Humanities (Firm); ABC News
Series: Supermax : life in a super-maximum security prison; CJA 340 (NU course); CJA 438 (NU course); CJA 440 (NU course); CJA 441 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Prison gangs; Prison violence; Prisons and race relations
Other titles: Nightline (Television program)
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally broadcast on ABC News Nightline.

Ted Koppel.

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