The County Jail: Introduction to Crime
- Date
1958
- Summary
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In this program, the history, role and current status of county jails is explored. An interview with a Cook County Jail inmate brings out the prisoner’s experience there and in similar jails. The county jail facilities are explored. Mattick and Lohman discuss the county jail population and emphasize the idea that the criminal education process occurring in jails often leads the minor offender on to a path of further crime. This system’s effects on the community-at-large and indicated improvements are described.
- Contributors
WTTW, Chicago; Joseph D. Lohman; Hans W. Mattick; Alan Sweetow; Chalmers Marquis; John H. Gagnon
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genre
Educational
- Subjects
Prisoners and prisons; Imprisonment; Jails--United States
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Physical Description
1 film reel 16 mm
- Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: 7835199; Other: GR00449015; MDPI Barcode: 40000003317387
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.