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Every Wednesday another busload of new inmates arrives at the Western Youth Institution in Morganton, North Carolina, a maximum security prison for juvenile offenders. What trade-offs do the convicts have to make, just to stay alive in this hostile environment? And what will they be like if they eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: ABC News Productions
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], ©1999.
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Corrections.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Juvenile delinquents > Rehabilitation.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (24 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:
Teens in maximum security prisons
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • Day One: Arriving in Prison (4:57)
  • Prison Violence: New Jacks, Gangs, and Guards (5:14)
  • Day Two: Rights of Initiation (4:25)
  • Forms of Currency: Food and Drugs (4:11)
  • What New Inmates Learn in Prison (3:49)