Media Sites
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| CBC
- Special Report on Canada’s Prisons |
This is a site put out by the CBC to compliment their Special
Report on Canada’s prisons which aired in April 2001.
The site contains the full three hour broadcast which contains
segments on guards, lifers, women in prison and the Special
Handling Unit. The site also includes a video tour of Collins
Bay medium security penitentiary and a remarkable tour of
the Special Handling Unit, marking the first time television
cameras have ever been inside Canada’s supermax. The
SHU segment contains interviews with two prisoners whose experiences
are also recorded in Justice behind the Walls. This also includes
an interview with Professor Michael Jackson: http://cbc.ca/clips/ram-lo/mansbridge_supermax010403.ram
This site includes video footage of a parole hearing and articles
and photos from MacLean’s magazine Special Report on
prisons. The site also contains the transcripts of CBC News
Big Picture Chat on Canada’s prisons, including viewers’
questions to CBC producer Rosie Rowbotham.
You will need RealPlayer
installed on your computer to view the video on this site.
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| U.
S. Public Radio’s Prision Diaries |
This
site records the results of a project by the U. S. Public Radio’s
Prision Diaries in which five prisoners, four correctional officers
and a judge were given tape recorders, and for six months the
diarists kept audio journals and recorded the sounds and scenes
of everyday life behind bars. The series is a remarkable portrait
of prison life. Prison Diaries is linked to the website www.360degrees.org
which is an in-depth account of some of the prisoners who have
kept diaries, as well as interviews with family members, judges,
lawyers, correction officers, victims and victims families.
Using the technology of 360-degree QuickTime panoramas, the
site allows viewers to enter the prisoner’s cell, the judges
chamber or families living room while listening to the audio
diaries.
If you click on this site at the link to www.360degrees.org
and enter either the Flash Site or the Non-Flash Site and click
on resources you will find a set of resource links including
recommended reading, videos and films, radio programmes, and
online links to both government and non-governmental resources
addressing prison issues in the United States. One such link
is www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
a site that brings together data from more than 100 sources
of all aspects of criminal justice in the United States. |
| Dan
Gardner: Crime and Punishment |
Dan
Gardner is a journalist with the Ottawa Citizen. In 2001-2002
he wrote a series of articles examining how different countries
deal with the issue of crime and punishment. The series includes
a comparison of Canadian, Russian, Finnish and U.S. policy and
a view inside prisons in these countries, including the Super
Max Pelican Bay Institution, the deep end of California's prison
system. |
