How Much Prison Time is Enough?

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Date
2020-02-09 (Creation date: 2019)
Main contributor
Maharis, Mercedes
Summary
Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused. 

His traumatic journey finds him caught between prison officials and board members, who place him in a mental double bind, unable to fulfill conflicting requirements to make parole so that he can get the medical care he needs to survive. 

Includes revealing statistics 2007 - 2019 about death during prison custody for Nevada sex offenders, as compared to total deaths in custody.  WARNING: MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS AND CHILDREN. a mercedes maharis film.  6 minutes.
Time period
1993
Location
Nevada
Collection
Kinsey Institute Educational Films
Unit
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
Language
English
Terms of Use
Worldwide use per Mercedes Maharis

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