Prison films

In the documentary “Inside Guantánamo,” the filmmakers at National Geographic shot a documentary about one of the most famous prisons in the world, Guantánamo Bay. Guantánamo Bay is a military naval base in Cuba. Guantánamo Bay is an American detention camp that detains insanely dangerous war criminals for interrogative purposes. It is known for its inhumane treatment of prisoners. National Geographic captured the daily life of the struggle between young military personnel and prisoners, many of…

Prison on television and films is portrayed a lot more innocent than it actually is. They do not go into very much detail about the most intense parts. In this book, Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman, the readers are given a perspective on the inside view of the women 's criminal justice and get to see how horrifying it actually is. There are a variety of reasons why one would say that prison changed piper for the better knowing that once she came out she would be more cautious about her…

an interesting film about Sedgewick Bell, a boy who follows Machiavellian principles throughout his life. The film demonstrates the effects of his lifestyle on himself and the people around him. It demonstrates how his actions create conflicts with his peers and elders. When creating conflicts with others, he often finds himself in worse positions than he was in to begin with. Moreover, others lose faith in Bell as he continuously uses his Machiavellian principles. Throughout the film, it is…

In my opinion, the film Caesar Must Die is not the most exciting film I have watched, but I did enjoy the fact that it portrayed criminals in a different light than what people are used to seeing. I believe the film moved slowly, but that might be because I spent more time reading the subtitles at the bottom then looking at the whole shot of the screen. Even though some inmates did reflect and mentioned their crimes and why they committed them, I would have liked to know more about everyone’s…

America built a new prison every two weeks, which they were not able…

discovered until over ten years later. The filmmakers and producers of this film are Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. Ken Burns, who has directed or co-directed 27 films, is often named the best-known documentary filmmaker in America. His films, focusing exclusively on American history and culture, include Brooklyn Bridge, The Civil War, Prohibition, and The Vietnam War. Most of his films are often long and expansive: The Civil War is 11 hours long, Jazz is 19…

Is the Prison System Really Helping Others? Can the US Prison System actually help people to become better or make them worthless? What is the goal or meaning for the prison? Is make the people become better and make them know what mistake they have make and they make the change. In the “Make the time fit the crime” From the website, we saw that “What 's prison for, anyway? Is it to change people, to punish them, or simply to remove them from the streets? If the number of cells is finite —…

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 film that portrays the experiences of a prisoner who refuses to adhere to the orders given to him in jail. This inmate Luke’s rebellious behaviour is in opposition with the general sense of conformity illustrated by the other prisoners. An individual can choose to conform and be obedient to authority, or to be non-compliant which can result in severe punishment. This paper will examine how conformity and obedience are strictly enforced and how non-conformity is punished…

are] 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States (Blake, 2016). This represents a growing number of inmates and overpopulated prisons. However, the focus is on the administrative functionality of the criminal justice system and the nature of the treatment inmates are subjected to by authorities in prison. We are quickly introduced to a stereotype about prison officers when Chapman first enters the reception area of Litchfield Penitentiary. The receiving officer is unaccommodating of just…

there (Hudson). Therefore, it is shocking and uncomfortable to discover that, while its population is quite small in comparison with other nations, the U.S. houses a quarter of the world’s inmate population (Hudson). Furthermore, the United States’ prison population adds up to a whopping 2.2 million people (Sidlow and Henschen 335), beating out the next highest nation, China, by nearly 600,000 prisoners (Walmsley). Given that China is home to 1.3 billion people, their incarceration rate of…