Tim Franks looks at the case of two prison inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for 40 years - believed to be the longest period of time in US history.
BBC Crossing Continents: The Angola Two
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Why don’t we talk more about North Country prisons? | NCPR News
Locking people up and keeping them behind bars is one of the North Country’s biggest industries. There are more than twenty jails and prison facilities scattered across our rural region. Corrections and law enforcement agencies provide high-paying jobs…
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Interview: Gerry Conlon (25 Feb 11)
Gerry Conlon spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was one of the so-called Guildford Four, jailed in 1975 for an IRA pub bombing which killed five people and injured more than sixty. Other members of his family were also wrongfully imprisoned for terrorist offences, including his father - who was to die in prison. In 2005 the then British prime minister Tony Blair apologised to Gerry Conlon and the others in his case and he was awarded compensation. But on The Interview he tells Carrie Gracie that he still can’t move on and his life has been ruined.
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HBM019: The Other One Percent
In 2006, Pete Brook moved from England to California to study the museum at San Quentin State Prison. Through his research, he learned of America’s first-in-the-world rates of incarceration inside of prisons that are largely hidden from view. In 2008, Pete began Prison Photography, a blog that dissects images of prisons and prisoners. This week’s show is about Pete Brook’s 2011 journey across America to interview photographers, criminologists, and, most of all, the prisoners of New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Look at photos from the Sing Sing Workshop by Tim Matsui. Here Be Monsters is now on Stitcher! Music: Phantom Fauna
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