[Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins talks about his project to mentor and rehabilitate prisoners at the medium security prison in Norco, California].

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Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins talks about his project to mentor and rehabilitate prisoners at the medium security prison in Norco, California. Robbins explains how the project, now in its seventh year, is funded by The Actors' Gang, which Robbins and some acting friends founded in 1981. He...

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Corporate Author: CBS Television Network
Other Authors: Robbins, Tim, 1958- (Interviewee)
Altschul, Serena (Reporter)
Prejean, Helen (Interviewee)
Language:English
Published: [2013]
Subjects:
Robbins, Tim, > 1958- > Interviews.
Actors > United States > Interviews.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > California > Norco.
Shawshank redemption (Motion picture)
Dead man walking (Motion picture)
Interviews.
Television feature stories.
Nonfiction television programs.
Sound recordings.
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Interviews.
Television feature stories.
Nonfiction television programs.
Sound recordings.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (8 min., 22 sec.) : digital, WAV file.
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Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins talks about his project to mentor and rehabilitate prisoners at the medium security prison in Norco, California. Robbins explains how the project, now in its seventh year, is funded by The Actors' Gang, which Robbins and some acting friends founded in 1981. He refuses to discuss the breakup with Susan Sarandon. Excerpts from a number of Robbins' films are featured as he discusses past projects including "Dead man walking" with Sister Helen Prejean. Robbins says, "no one who has gone through the program has come back to prison that we're aware of." On the show "Sunday Morning."
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Call Number:Voice 19555
Playing Time:00:08:22
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Broadcast on CBS-TV, Sept. 1, 2013.