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And I began to think about ways that we might consider this lesson of trees, to consider other entities that are also static and stuck, but which cry for change and dynamicism, and one of those entities is our prisons.
Prisons, of course, are where people who break our laws are stuck, confined behind bars.
I decided to ask whether the lesson I had learned from trees as artists could be applied to a static institution such as our prisons, and I think the answer is yes.
Working with four prisons, we began bringing science and scientists, sustainability and conservation projects to four state prisons.
Today's performers, like Rhodessa Jones, work in women's prisons, helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration, while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more.
I worked inside of supermax prisons, on the shores of Guantanamo, at the sites of mass shootings when the blood was still fresh on the ground.
The authors know nothing about Russians prisons, the movie is absolutely cockamamie, has nothing common with the reality.
Playing soccer is also forbidden in the prisons, contacts between the prisoners are very restricted, no chance for bloody combats etc etc etc.
You can't be a warden in 3 different prisons at the same time.
At that point I didn't know about prisons, violence, racial tensions, or the struggle to survive & live free.
Since growing up in Czechoslovakia I was following history of RAF pilots and crews in WWII Great Britain, their stories and tragic ending either in the combat or in communist prisons and camps.
If you take a more moderate view of the movie and choose to believe that this couldn't happen here, look more closely at Guantanamo Bay, some of our "enemy combatants," the rumored CIA secret prisons and the many incidents similar to the one in Greensboro, NC in 1979 (8 full years AFTER the making of this movie).
Building more children's's prisons with higher walls surely is not the answer...
In this film, the action takes place both in the early 1950's when these pilots are being beaten in political prisons in Czeckoslavakia and during World War II in Britain.
With the war not going well for the Soviet Union, Stalin accepted volunteers from the prisons and used the prisoners as shock troops.
The acting wasn't the greatest, I'll admit that, but it was passionate about it's message, sending people into prisons without so much as an attorney or some type of trial is cruel and unusual.
Dan Ackroyd does his usual satirical turn as a con who seizes a great opportunity to steal a contract from his prisons physician.
I wish the girls had been abused more in the prison, as another commenter has suggested, as I've heard that Thai prisons can be quite brutal.
Prisons are not exactly renowned for their kind hospitality and 'happy vibes', what with stories of fights, chaos, murder and of course extreme male bonding!
3 Walls: 7 out of 10: My first reaction was that Indian prisons are really nice.
That's really unfair, but what a good idea for our prisons we have now.
I've done some work in prisons, so I had an intellectual understanding that prisons are a world unto themselves, with their own rules and consequences.
In THIS GUN FOR HIRE he had been Raven, a cold-blooded killer made that way by a crummy childhood (culminating in his self-defense killing of his aunt),and years of reformatories and prisons.
For those who think that Frank Darabont with "Shawshank Redemption" has mastered the art of filming prisons,watch out "Carandiru" will teach you a thing or two about the portrayal of prisons in films.
It is a future time and prisons are now run by private companies for profit because the economy went to hell.
Prisons are a sign of the failure of our society.
It was the era of Chicago gangsters and hoodlums, it was the era of Al Capone, it was the era of the electric chair, it was the era of the speakeasy, it was the era of the bootlegger, it was the era of illegal alcohol production, it was the era of prisons.
It's only a vehicle for his art, though certainly a favored one, owing to fact he spent most of his life in French prisons.
For example, direct ballots on hot-button issues made prison sentencing mandatory, while simultaneously reducing taxes and funding for prisons.
Nevertheless, one must wonder about a winning movement with quite a few elected members in Israeli prisons and others who are not likely to get permission to enter the country in which they were elected, so that the new parliament cannot function properly.
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