Prison: 1971 ( Full Documentary)by National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producer and director, Dick McCutchen; consultant, Prentice Williams Probes the value and reality of prison life as prisoner interviews bring out complaints of racism, prejudice, and a lack of respect for human dignity. Suggests alternatives to prison life. Filmed in Bucks County Prison in Doylestown, Pa Some details about the National Educational television Center Educational Television (NET), originally called the Educational Television and Radio Center, was a nonprofit, taxexempt, independent organization whose primary mission was to provide national and international programming for the educational television stations of America. NET provided ten hours each week of distinctive programming in fine arts and music, the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences, children s programs, and public affairs. At its demise in 1971, more than fifty per cent of its programming was in the field of public affairs, with cultural and children s programs comprising the balance. Noncurre
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