Frontline. The new asylums
2005
DVD
Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners.
Item Details
Edition: Edited version.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: CHVR: Not rated.
Other Title:
- New asylums [DVD].
- Frontline (Television program)
Notes:
- RPL : Licensed for public performance.
- Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Frontline on May 10, 2005.
- Includes: optional audio commentary with Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor.
- Photography, Ben McCoy ; editor, Daisy Wright.
- Narrated by Will Lyman.
- DVD-R.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Publisher or Distributor Number: FRL72313
Control Number: 856647
Publisher: [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Distributed by PBS Video, [2005]Subjects:
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ohio.
- Documentary television programs -- United States.
- Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Ohio.
- Mental Health Services -- Ohio.
- Mentally Ill Persons -- Ohio.
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Ohio.
- Mentally ill prisoners -- Care -- Ohio.
- Prisoners -- Ohio.
- Prisons -- Ohio.
Genre: Video recordings.
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