The released / produced by Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, Daisy Wright ; written and directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O'Connor ; a Frontline co-production with Mead Street Films ; a production of WGBH Boston.

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Examines what happens to the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill prisoners when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. Includes the intimate stories of the released, interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists.

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Corporate Authors: Mead Street Films (Firm), WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Home Video
Other Authors: Navasky, Miri, Lyman, Will, 1948- (Narrator), O'Connor, Karen (Film editor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2009], ©2009.
Edition:Widescreen format.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
Mentally Ill Persons.
Community Mental Health Services.
Deinstitutionalization.
Prisoners.
Mentally ill prisoners > United States.
Ex-convicts > Mental health > United States.
Mentally ill > United States > Social conditions.
Mental health policy > United States.
United States.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Documentaries and Factual Films.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Documentaries and Factual Films.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Examines what happens to the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill prisoners when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. Includes the intimate stories of the released, interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists.
Note:"WGBH Educational Foundation"--Container.
Videorecording.
Call Number:CT1 D0110834 VideoDVD
ISBN:0793670713
9780793670710
Credits:Director of photography, Ben McCoy ; editor, Daisy Wright ; music, Justin Samaha.
System Details:DVD; stereo.; region 1.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator, Will Lyman ; with Reggie Wilkinson, Michael Grissett, James Rodio, Debbie Nixon-Hughes, Scott Schnyders, Lynn Moore, Michael Unger, Jennifer Howison, Alan Howland, Ann McAllister.
Event Details:
Originally broadcast on the television program Frontline on April 28, 2009.