Ten Days in Holloway
An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
An unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.