Prison films

out This documentary gave an insight on the life of inmates in prison. How, many offenders go in and out of prison sometimes because they get “institutionalized.” The film follows the life inside the prison, transitioning out of prison, and how parole works once they make their way out of prison and back into society. (Parole: Getting Out and Stayng Out) This brought to light what it’s like for an offender to go into prison and the critical things that must be followed and encouraged in…

The 1975 film involves a criminal named Randle who pleads insanity after getting into trouble once again (IMDb, 1990). As Randle is involuntarily moved to the mental institution, he rebels against the domineering nurse and rallies up the patients (IMDb, 1990). The ratings of this movie were 95%, which is very high for a film rating (Rotten Tomatoes). Randle becomes enemies with Nurse Ratched as she is an authority figure who enforces the rules and correct behavior, while Randle is a rule-breaker…

Movie 13th discusses the Prison Industrial Complex. Using this movie and any other class material/discussions, describe the ways in which capitalism, politics, and the American legal framework have worked together to institutionalize racism in our criminal justice and prison systems. The movie 13th is an especially helpful source to answer how capitalism, politics, and the American legal framework have worked together to institutionalize racism in our criminal justice and prison systems. The…

When choosing a film to write about, I selected the movie Holes since it was a movie very familiar to me and something I used to enjoy watching as a child. Holes, released in April 18, 2003, is a film written about a young boy, Stanley Yelnats IV, who was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, due to his bad luck and 100-year-old family curse. Having been falsely accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s cleats, Stanley was forced to go to court and instead of being sentenced to…

stories about the innocent and the guilty people in one prison. The prisoners try to entertain themselves with mind tricks to lure in new prisoners and bets that involve contraband that some of the guards know about. Escape is one of the main and most important themes of the movie it is shown in many different forms by many of the characters such as Brooks, Red and Andy Dufresne. Escape is shown when Brooks is told that he is leaving the prison, Brooks does not accept this and threaten one of…

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 film centered around a prisoner that refuses to comply with the orders given to him in jail, and thus refuses to conform to the standards of behaviour this institution has attempted to impose upon him. This inmates rebellious character and his many tribulations can serve to compare him to the others. An individual’s behaviour can influence another’s through conformity and rebellion; however, the former comes without consequence and the latter cruel and inhumane…

The film we see how the filmmakers are not much different than the water company that is privatizing the water supply in Bolivia. Both Costa (the producer) and Sebastian (the director) choose Bolivia as their location because it will provide cheap labor. Costa…

Sources: The source of conflict in the Attica Prison Riot was Relative Deprivation. Relative deprivation theory states, “the primary source of the human capacity for violence is the frustration-aggression mechanism. There is a discrepancy between what people think they deserve, and what they actually think they can get” (Langdon Sources Slides, 2018). More specifically, one feels deprived relative to a reasonable standard (Pruitt & Kim, 2004). Therefore, the Attica Riot seemed inevitable to…

may face in the future. The documentary suggests a critical issue in the African American community, mass incarceration, is a new form of slavery permitted by the 13th amendment. Mass incarceration refers to the incredibly high population of the prison systems.…

identified how those affected by the murder all came together and the victims were able to express their feelings. What all those involve took away from restorative justice was that they all felt as if some of the grief had gone away (Ronin Films, 2015). By only using prison as a punishment it does not allow the offender to see the implications of their actions. Restorative justice should be used more to reduce recidivism, according to a study in the United Kingdom after using restorative…