Lack of services available to women prisoners

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Title:
Lack of services available to women prisoners
Description:
In this clip Gertrude Cuthbert, chairperson of the Massachusetts Parole Board, describes what she perceives as sexism in the prison service in relation to the services available to women prisoners. Overall the program examines the lives of women in correctional facilities, particularly those in Massachusetts. Content is divided into two primary segments: an airing of Inside Women Inside (an acquired film exploring the lives of institutionalized women, their attitudes towards the penal system, and the conditions of the institutions they inhabit) and an interview conducted by Barbara Barrow-Murray with Gertrude Cuthbert (Chairperson of the Massachusetts Parole Board), Verna Trotman (Director of Charlotte House), Janet (no last name given, but a resident of Charlotte House), and Katherleane Graham (employee and former resident of Charlotte House). Topics include: responses to the film, the differences in resources available to male inmates as opposed to women, work release programs, the difficulty to providing care for children whose mothers are in prison, and sanitary conditions in the Framingham, Mass. correctional facility. Inside Women Inside produced by Third World Newsreel and copyrighted by Camera News, Inc. 1978. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.
Producer:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Director:
Clarke, Brian
Creator:
Deare, Beth
Contributor:
Buccheri, Ron
Contributor:
Plausse, John
Contributor:
Lane, Frank
Contributor:
Fong, Diana
Contributor:
Kane, Pat
Contributor:
Vigneaux, Steve
Contributor:
Lewis, Webster
Contributor:
Wong, Evelyn
Contributor:
Mahard, Fran
Contributor:
Brennan, Susan
Contributor:
Smith, Kathy
Contributor:
Bordett, Bruce
Contributor:
Stewart, Aubrey
Host:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Contributor:
Rivera, George
Contributor:
Rosenthal, Iris
Contributor:
Devitt, Doug
Contributor:
Mackles, Gene
Contributor:
Beres, Marc
Contributor:
Demers, Leo
Contributor:
Hill, Rebecca
Contributor:
Sullivan, John L.
Contributor:
Holden, Dick
Date:
April 27, 1979
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
WGBH Open Vault
Series:
Say Brother
Subjects:
Inmates of institutions--Attitudes
Elmhurst General Hospital
Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham
Civil rights
Segregation
Cuthbert, Gertrude
Inside Women Inside (Motion picture)
Graham, Katherleane
Trotman, Verna
Correctional Institute for Women at Rikers Island
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
Correctional institutions--Massachusetts
North Carolina Correctional Center for Women
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier:
V_5DBC0F282B334FF4A735AD6DE354578F