Summary: For many inmates at juvenile correctional facilities, looking ahead to freedom brings anxiety and doubt. This program illustrates the challenges that often await young offenders following incarceration and shows teen inmates preparing to face the corporate world, their families, and themselves. Overcoming illiteracy, building marketable work skills, and becoming familiar with employment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Shimon Schocken is a computer science professor and dedicated educator who spends much of his free time on a mountain bike. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an intensive outdoor program aimed at improving the lives of Israel's juvenile inmates. In this TEDTalk, Schocken describes being moved by both the extreme difficulties and profound successes of those he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Facing severe understaffing and overcrowding, Wyoming State Penitentiary has gone to extreme measures, enlisting prospective officers from economically depressed areas across the United States. Unfortunately, these raw recruits tend to have one thing in common: a complete lack of law-enforcement experience. This program follows three new hires into the crucible where they face the challenges of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program examines male violence towards women by following three men with a history of abuse who have joined a program to help them stop their abusive behavior. The issues of authority and control by men over women, both physically and mentally, are explored by the men and by domestic counselors as a major cause of male violence towards women. Popular misconceptions such as the woman's role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: "Being in a gang - selling drugs for a gang - is perhaps the worst job in all of America. And that's what I'd like to convince you of today." In this TEDTalk, Freakonomics coauthor Steven Levitt presents data on the finances of drug dealing to illustrate that contrary to popular myth, being a street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative; it pays below minimum wage (and comes with the added...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks at the effects of family violence on the abused and the abuser: at the danger that abused children will grow up to repeat the pattern of violence in their own relationships; at the problems of date violence; at the physical and emotional abuse women suffer at the hands of their husbands and lovers. While showing the benefits of therapy, it stresses the need of the abused for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: How much faith do we really place in the institutions that settle our disputes and, at times, determine the fate of individuals? Are there other ways of finding a proper outcome besides the Western system of courts and prisons? Does might make right, and-even if the answer is no-has any society on the planet created a true alternative? This program looks at concepts of justice in various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Many at-risk youths see negative lifestyles such as hustling drugs as the only real alternatives open to them. Introspective in tone, this documentary presents a different point of view through the emotional journey of at-risk young black men attending an intensive retreat led by older black men whose life experiences qualify them as powerful mentors for positive personal change. Overall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this ABC News program, John Stossel sheds light on troubling issues involving sexual behavior and criminal justice. Case studies include the story of 18-year-old Jon, who spent a year in jail after having sex with a 14-year-old girl-although her father later regretted pressing charges and tried to have Jon removed from Florida's sex offender registry. Other reports concern an alleged sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Filthy clothes, needle marks, panhandling.is this an accurate picture of teenage homelessness? Going behind common stereotypes, this video tells human stories about human beings-most of them young people who know homelessness firsthand. Amber and Tieshi describe the harsh reality of life on the street, clearly demonstrating the same needs, fears, and hopes that all teens have. Andy explains...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This episode of Investigative Reports asks: does violence on television cause violence in the home and on the streets?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: An average pedophile will molest 363 children in his or her lifetime. This program goes to a lock-down and into the community to develop a profile of juvenile sex offenders and to study the pioneering work of organizations attempting to reintegrate offenders into society. Interviews with experts reveal the causes behind the actions of young sex offenders, including sex abuse in their own young...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For impoverished citizens of New York City who have been accused of a crime, the New York County Defender Services is a public defense law firm that will fight for their rights to the end: jail or acquittal. This episode of Investigative Reports illustrates the daily frustrations of four public defenders going head to head with the State of New York.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 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....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Convicted child molester Jonathan Hawes is a marked man. Although out on parole and free to live wherever he chooses, he is regarded by his neighbors with suspicion, fear, and animosity. In part one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel, Jonathan Hawes' parole officer, two of Hawes' neighbors, and a woman who blocked Hawes' attempt to move into her neighborhood address the impact of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines the close correlation between gang activity and the music many youths are listening to today, "gangster rap. The program features Sgt. Ron Stallworth, who heads the unit dealing with gangs at the Utah Division of Investigation. Sgt. Stallworth has frequently testified about gangs and gang violence before Congress and police and civic groups. He is the author of Gangster...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Every 12 seconds, a woman is beaten in the U.S.-beaten by her lover, her husband, her partner in life. Year after year, the cycle of violence spins faster, spiraling down through the generations, father to son and mother to daughter. Only when communities and families say "Enough!" can the cycle be broken. This program shows how people can and have said "Enough!": women, men, and children who...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007