1994CRIME
BURDEN OF JUSTICE (FULL VERSION)
PROBLEMS OF PRISONS FACING OUR COUNTRY
PROBLEMS OF PRISONS FACING OUR COUNTRY
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| 01:00:03 5.05 |
REEL OPENS VAR SHOTS HANDS BEHIND PRISON BARS, PRISONER'S FACE SHOT FROM BEHIND BARS
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| 01:00:29 30.94 |
BURDEN OF JUSTICE - PRISONERS DRESSED IN WHITE HOLDING BROOMS AND RAKES MARCHING ALONG OPEN FIELD WITH GUARD ON HORSEBACK.
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| 01:00:47 49.26 |
WATCHTOWER - GUARD HOLDING RIFLE LOOKING OUT
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| 01:01:01 63.26 |
OVERCROWDED HALLWAY OF PRISONERS
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| 01:01:28 89.63 |
CU AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER PEERING OUT OF JAIL CELL
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| 01:01:32 94.1 |
LONG SHOT OF PRISON IN OPEN DESOLATE AREA
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| 01:01:40 101.82 |
B&W INTERIOR PAN OF OVERCROWDED ALABAMA PRISON DORMITORY
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| 01:01:49 111.55 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUNG MAN WITH BANDAGE OVER NOSE LOOKING SAD AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT BEING BRUTALIZED BY OTHER INMATES, MISTREATMENT BY PRISON STAFF, DENIAL OF MEDICAL ATTENTION.
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| 01:02:03 125.02 |
HUGELY OVERCROWDED PRISON DORMITORY
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| 01:02:17 139.02 |
PRISONER PEERING OUT FROM JAIL CELL
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| 01:02:29 151.29 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN SEEN MAN KNOCKING DOWN A WALL
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| 01:02:41 163.22 |
PRISON GUARD WATCH TOWERS.
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| 01:02:50 172.33 |
PRISON YARD AS SEEN THROUGH CHAIN LINK FENCE. INMATES SHOOTING HOOPS
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| 01:02:58 180.15 |
WATCH TOWER THROUGH HEAVILY BARBED WIRE FENCE.
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| 01:03:06 188.02 |
A MUCH IMPROVED PRISON DORMITORY LOOKING CLEANER AND UNCROWDED.
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| 01:03:17 198.77 |
FEMALE OFFICER WALKS THROUGH GATED AREA INTO CELL BLOCK
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| 01:03:32 213.87 |
PRISONERS EATING IN MESS HALL. "ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS " ON BACK OF SHIRT
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| 01:03:55 237.13 |
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE HON. BRAXTON KITTRELL AND RUSSELL BURDETT, ATTNY AT LAW TALK WITH UNSEEN INTERVIEWER ABOUT PRISON AND THE EASY WAY OF LOCKING UP CRIMINALS AND THAT'S IT.
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| 01:04:46 287.98 |
PRISON WARDEN, LYNN HARRELSON OUTSIDE PRISON TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT REALISTICALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT CAN BE DONE TO DEFRAY COSTS
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| 01:05:04 306.34 |
EXTERIOR PRISON YARD, WATCH TOWER, WATERTOWER, CHAIN LINK FENCING
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| 01:05:11 313.34 |
CORRECTIONS OFFICER DOES ROLL CALL IN PRISON YARD
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| 01:05:24 325.92 |
PRISONERS IN YARD SHIRTLESS, TATOOED. PRISONERS IN ALABAMA CORRECTIONS JUMPSUITS
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| 01:05:27 329.35 |
PRISON GUARD WATCHING OVER PRISON YARD FROM HIGH UP IN TOWER
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| 01:05:50 352.49 |
DOWNTOWN MOBILE, ALABAMA AS SEEN FROM ACROSS THE RIVER. TUG BOAT GOING BY AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT PRISON REFORM
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| 01:06:09 371.21 |
POLICE CAR DRVING SLOWLY DOWN NEIGHBORHOOD STREET
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| 01:06:22 384.49 |
OFFICER CRAIG RICHARDS FROM MOBILE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INTERVIEWED AS HE DRIVES THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF MOBILE, TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF OVERCROWDED PRISONS WHICH ULTIMATELY LEADS TO PRISONERS BEING RELEASED.
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| 01:06:52 414.31 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICE WORKER PULLING OUT FILE DRAWER AND LEAFING THROUGH THE FILES.
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| 01:08:16 498.38 |
CIRCUIT JUDGE FROM ALABAMA, BRAXTON KITTRELL TALKS ABOUT SENTENCING CHANGES MADE OVER THE YEARS. HE DISCUSSES, WITH UNSEEN INTERVIEWER, SENTENCING PRACTICES AND HOW THEY MUST BE LOOKED AT MORE PROGRESSIVELY.
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| 01:08:47 529.08 |
YOUNG REPEAT-OFFENDER, MEYERS, TALKS WITH PROBATION OFFICER ABOUT COMMUNITY SERVICE. THEY TALK ABOUT MEYERS' DRUG USE AFTER HAVING FAILED TWO URINE TESTS.
PROBATION OFFICER GLENN WILEY, MOBILE, ALABAMA, TALKS ABOUT HOW THE OFFENDERS NEED TO KNOW SOMEONE CARES. |
| 01:10:09 610.95 |
EXTERIOR TWO STORY APARTMENT COMPLEX - RENTAL OFFICE SIGN
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| 01:10:22 624.2 |
OFFENDER, MEYERS, SITTING IN LIVING ROOM ON HOUSE ARREST WATCHING TELEVISION, LOOKING BORED FLIPPING THROUGH MAGAZINE. HE SPEAKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT HIS PUNISHMENT AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT PRISON, MAKES YOU THINK BEFORE YOU BREAK THE LAW AGAIN.
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| 01:10:56 658.07 |
CU ELECTRONIC TRANSMITTER ON WRIST. ATTACHED TO HOME PHONE. MEYERS ON PHONE AS SOMEONE CALLS TO CHECK UP ON HIM.
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| 01:12:06 727.56 |
MEYERS SWEEPING COURTHOUSE BASEMENT. PARKING GARAGE WITH SHERIFF PATROL CAR. COMMUNITY SERVICE
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| 01:12:22 744.21 |
JUDGE SPEAKING ABOUT COMMUNITY SERVICE AS AN EXPERIMENT RATHER THAN SENDING OFFENDERS STRAIGHT TO PENITENTIARY.
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| 01:12:43 764.62 |
MEYERS' PAINTING SPEED BUMP IN COURTHOUSE GARAGE. HE TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT DOING BETTER.
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| 01:13:08 790.27 |
CUT TO LARGE GROUP OF PRISONERS IN WHITE UNIFORMS OUT IN THE FIELD MARCHING ALONG HOLDING SHOVELS AS GUARD ON HORSEBACK FOLLOWS ALONG.
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| 01:13:24 805.55 |
PRISONERS LIFTING WEIGHTS IN PRISON YARD.
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| 01:13:31 812.79 |
AERIAL VIEW PRISON YARD, INMATES CAN BE SEEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, STANDING AROUND
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| 01:14:08 850.17 |
COMMISSIONER ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, MORRIS THIGPEN. HE TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT HOW THE LONGER AN OFFENDER IS IN THE PRISON SYSTEM, THE LESS CHANCE THEY WILL CHANGE AND BECOME PRODUCTIVE ONCE RELEASED. RESCIVIDISM.
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| 01:14:37 879.48 |
PRISONERS ARE SEEN IN YARD LIFTING HEAVY BARBELLS. SWEEPING MUDDY AREA. AS GUARD LOOKS ON.
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| 01:15:27 928.58 |
BARBED WIRE AREA OUTSIDE PRISON. NARRATOR SPEAKS OF THE COST OF INCARCERATION, THE WORK INMATES DO IN PRISON DOESN'T DEFRAY THE COST OF THEIR INCARCERATION NOR DOES IT SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES OR PAY BACK THEIR VICTIM'S LOSSES.
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| 01:15:42 943.75 |
CAPITAL BUILDING OF ALABAMA, DOWNTOWN AREA PEDS, TRAFFIC.
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| 01:15:57 958.79 |
PICK UP TRUCK HAULING HUGE BAILS OF HAY
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| 01:16:02 963.89 |
BEARDED AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN CIGARETTE HANGING OUT OF MOUTH
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| 01:16:13 975.42 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN SITTING OUTSIDE LONE, SMALL WHITE, GROCERY STORE WITH AWNINGS. COCA COLA SIGNS ON BUILDING
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| 01:16:21 983.01 |
LARGE HAND WRITTEN "FISH FRY" SIGN - ARROWS POINTING THE WAY
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| 01:16:26 987.75 |
SMALL SOUTHERN DOWNTOWN. ONLY ONE CAR DRIVING DOWHN THE STREET
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| 01:16:43 1005.06 |
FORMER PRISON WARDEN AND CURRENT SENTENCING CONSULTANT, GRADY WACASTER TALKS WITH UNSEEN INTERVIEWER ABOUIT THE JUDICIOUS USE OF PRISONS SO THEY BENEFIT US.
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| 01:17:42 1064.29 |
WACASTER IS SEEN SPEAKING WITH AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER IN HIS CELL.
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| 01:17:53 1075.11 |
WACASTER CONTINUES CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW THE OFFENDER SHOULD BEAR THE MORAL AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THEIR CRIMES.
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| 01:18:20 1101.82 |
WACASTER BEING SWORN IN IN AN ALABAMA COURT ROOM. THE JUDGE CLAUD NEILSON, TALKS ABOUT HOW SO MANY OFFENDERS DO NOT NEED TO BE IN A PENITENTIARY.
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| 01:19:08 1149.98 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFENDER SITTING IN COURT ROOM LOOKING PENSIVE AS HE'S SENTENCED..
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| 01:19:18 1160.41 |
WACASTER TALKS WITH SAME AFRICAN AMERICAN INMATE, WHO IS WEARING A CLEAR SHOWER CAP AND SMOKING A CIGARETTE, ABOUT POTENTIAL SENTENCE OF A HABITUAL OFFENDER - PRISONER REPEATS IT - 15-99 YEARS AND TOSSES HIS CIGARETTE BUTT.
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| 01:19:56 1198.23 |
PHOTO OF FORGED CHECKS
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| 01:21:16 1277.58 |
BACK IN COURTROOM, WACASTER AND ATTORNEY TALK ABOUT PRISONERS SENTENCE AND IF IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN A PRISON SENTENCE. THEY DISCUSS BACK AND FORTH
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| 01:23:16 1397.91 |
SCENES OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA TOWN. LARGE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH CRIME PREVENTION SIGNAGE, PEDS WALKING THROUGH TOWN
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| 01:23:28 1409.96 |
HANDS HOLDING ON TO PRISON BARS,.CELL BLOCK PRISON YARD WATCH TOWER.
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| 01:24:05 1446.64 |
GRADY WACASTER SUMS UP WHAT'S FAIR - INCARCERATE DANGEROUS OFFENDERS, IF THEY'RE MANAGEABLE THEN SOME PUNISHMENT. MORRIS THIGPEN, COMMISSIONER DEPT OF CORRECTIONS STATES THERE'S GROWING ACCEPTANCE THAT INCARCERATION IS NOT THE ONLY PUNISHMENT SANCTION AVAILABLE
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| 01:24:36 1478.43 |
WRIST BAND, INMATE CHECKS IN BY PHONE FROM APARTMENT.
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| 01:25:17 1519.44 |
JUDGE SENTENCING. CASE WORKER TALKS WITH EX INMATE.
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| 01:25:57 1558.63 |
PRISONERS PLAYING BASKETBALL IN THE YARD AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE ANSWERS TO PRISON REFORM AND OVERCROWDING MAY NOT LIE IN HARSHER SENTENCES.
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| 01:27:05 1626.83 |
END REEL.
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