General Information

Author/Creator

Stack, Jonathan, director.

Language

English.

Published

United States, 2001.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (72 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00004122

Contents/Summary

Summary

The film follows the lives and struggles of women in Louisiana's most notorious prison for female inmates: the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Housing 900 of the State's most dangerous women, the film follows six of them as they try to survive the trials of life in prison as daughters, mothers and grandmothers. 68 year old Mary, the oldest women in the prison, is serving a life sentence for two murders. Her struggle is to convince the warden to build a cemetery on the compound for her burial. 24 year old Adine Rayford delivers her second child and is forced to leave it at the hospital as she returns back to prison. Meanwhile Heather Zerangue, a young girl from New Orleans, who had a brief career in modeling before coming to prison, approaches her first parole hearing, nervous that her mother is going to show up and speak against her. Finally, Keanna, a young mother of three serving time for a heroin deal, is finally released. We follow her out of prison, only to see her eventually rearrested and returned to prison once more.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Soros Documentary Fund

Library Special Collection

Soros Documentary Fund

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2506	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2506 (HU_OSA_00004122.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format