TITLE SLATE. ELLIS PRODUCTIONS, INC. DOING TIME: TEN YEARS LATER.
SEPT. 18, 1990

SLATE: DOING TIME TEN YEARS LATER

PRISON WATCH TOWER. HEAVY BARBED WIRE.

PRISON GUARDS PEERING INTO JAIL CELL. MAN CAN BE HEARD SCREAMING.

PRISONER SITTING ALONE ON BED IN CELL, LOOKING BORED, TAKING APART AN EMPTY CIGARETTE PACKAGE. PLACES PIECES IN TRASH BAG.

CU PRISONER PEERING OUT FROM BEHIND BARS.

TWO MEN DRAGGING A BODY. DARK FOOTAGE
MAN ON STRETCHER WITH BANDAGED HEAD.

ABANDONED EMPTY CELL BLOCK. DAMAGED BY UPRISING AND FIRE.

TWO PRISONERS HANGING OUT CASUALLY LEANING ON RAIL HAVING A SMOKE.

SHIRTLESS PRISONER WORKING OUT ON HEAVY BAG IN PRISON YARD. CU PRISONER PUMPING IRON.

MEN IN HANDCUFFS WALKING THROUGH PRISON YARD.

PRISONERS SITTING AROUND INSIDE PENITENTIARY, GENERAL POPULATION, PRISONERS LINED UP IN LAUNDRY ROOM WITH BAGS OF DIRTY LAUNDRY.

CLEVER WAY OF PLAYING CARDS IN PRISON.

INTERVIEW WITH EX-INMATE RAYMOND ROBINETTE. HE TALKS ABOUT BEING OUT OF PRISON, SETTLING DOWN AND HOW HE LOOKS AT LIFE DIFFERENTLY. SHOTS OF HIM AT WORK AS AN APARTMENT MANAGER. HE TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF GETTING BACK IN SOCIETY, HOW HARD IT IS NOT TO GET BACK INTO THE SAME PATTERNS.

SLOW PAN OF NUMBERED MUGSHOTS ON A WALL.

YOUNG EX-INMATE DAVID VIGIL IN 1980 INTERVIEW TALKS ABOUT HIS TEN YEARS IN PRISON AND HIS NEW LIFE AS AN ARTIST.

PRISONER IN CROWDED JAIL COMPLAINS ABOUT DOING TIME, BUT FEELS HE SHOULDN'T BE ABUSED AND TREATED LIKE AN ANIMAL. BLOWING STEAM. UNHAPPY INMATES.

WHITE MALE PRISONER IN PRISON YARD DOING DUMB BELL CURLS

NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT A 36 HOUR PRISON RIOT FEBRUARY 2, 1980 AT PENITENTIARY OF NEW MEXICO. SHOTS OF PRISONERS IN MASKS, BODY BEING CARRIED OUT ON A GURNEY.

AFTERMATH OF PRISON RIOT. FILTHY BLOODY BEDS, TABLES AND CABINETS OVERTURNED, MESSY BUNK BEDS, CHAOS.

PRISON CONTROL ROOM IN TOTAL DISARRAY AFTER PRISON RIOT. CABINETS DESTROYED, RUBBISH ALL OVER THE FLOORS.

AERIAL BURNING PRISON IN NEW MEXICO, 1980

DRUGS FROM PRISON PHARMACY - PILLS ALL OVER TABLE, OPENED BOTTLES STREWN ABOUT

BLOODY FLOORS IN CELL BLOCK. PRISON OFFICIALS AND EX INMATE TALK ABOUT THE BARBARIC HORRORS OF THE RIOT, DEAD BODIES AND SMOKE EVERYWHERE

INMATE'S SISTER, KATHLEEN O'MEARA TALKS ABOUT THE RIOT, WONDERS HOW AND WHY IT HAPPENED, AND HOW HER BROTHER WAS KILLED.

TIED UP PRISONER WRESTLES WITH OFFICERS

FORMER PAROLE BOARD CHAIRMAN, ANTONIO RIVERA, TALKS ABOUT THE HORRORS OF THE 1980 RIOT, HE CAN'T FORGET IT.

PAROLE OFFICER HASELBAUER TALKS ABOUT BEING OINE OF THE FIRST OFFICIALS TO ENTER THE PRISON IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RIOT. HE TELLS ABOUT THE DEAD BODIES, ANKLE DEEP WATER, SWAT TEAM MEMBERS RUNNING AROUND.

SCENES OF EMPTY PRISON IN AFTERMATH OF RIOT.

VAR. EXTERIOR SHOTS NEW MEXICO PENITENTIARY

EXTERIOR PRISON WATCH TOWER, GUARD LOOKING OUT. BARBED WIRE FENCE

PRISONERS WALKING AROUND PRISON YARD AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE FINAL BREAKDOWN BETWEEN PRISONERS AND GUARDS WHICH CAUSED THE RIOT..

SHOTS INSIDE CROWDED PRISON, VERSUS NEW CLEANER PRISON WITH LESS POPULATION - LESS CROWDED HALLWAY

GUARDS WALKING AROUND PERIMETER OF INTERIOR CELL BLOCKS.
NARRATOR DISCUSSES NEW RULE OF ONE MAN PER CELL.

NEW REBUILT IMPROVED PRISON CONTROL CENTER. PRISON GUARD ON PHONE SITTING IN FRONT OF LARGE SWITCHBOARD.

INMATES WALKING PAST CONTROL CENTER. METAL BARS SEPARATE PRISONERS FROM THE ROOM. GUARD IS SEEN ON PHONE.

CU SHOTS VAR UNIDENTIFIED PRISON GUARDS IN UNIFORM.

PRISON GUARDS AT WORK (AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT CHANGES MADE BUT TURNOVER IS STILL HIGH).

INMATES JOGGING AND HANGING AROUND THE PRISON YARD.

CU SHOT HANDCUFFED HANDS.

GONZALES, 10 YEARS LATER, IN HIS PRISON CELL, UNWRAPS CIGARETTE PACKS ONE BY ONE KILLING TIME.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE FRAMES AND FANCY BOXES MADE FROM CIGARETTE PACKS.

PRISONERS TALKS ABOUT BEING INCARCERATED AND INSTITUTIONALIZED. WHITE BEARDED LONG HAIRED PRISONER, BUZBEE, TALKS ABOUT DIFFICULTIES ADJUSTING TO FREEDOM AFTER INCARCERATION.

PRISONERS WALKING THE YARD, WORKING OUT.

INTERVIEW WITH PAROLE OFFICER WHO TALKS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE AT THE HEARINGS.

AERIAL NEW MEXICO. DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC.

EXAMPLES OF VAR. HAUNTING PAINTINGS BY INMATES FOUND IN PRISONS

PRISONER (SAME AS EARLIER IN REEL) WORKING OUT LIFTING WEIGHTS AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT HIS GOING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL WHEN PAROLED, BUT WINDING UP BACK IN PRISON AFTER HE COMMITTED A BRUTAL RAPE.

SHOTS OF VAR EX INMATES WORKING AND ASSIMILATING TO LIFE OUTSIDE PRISON.

VAR PRISONERS IN JAIL AND OUT TALK ABOUT THEIR CRIMES AND REGRETS.

SAME SHOTS AS EARLIER INTERIOR PENITENTIARY OF NEW MEXICO BEFORE RENOVATION

EPILOGUE. UPDATES ON THE STATUS OF THE EX-PRISONERS INTERVIEWED FOR THIS STORY.