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Former Prisoners Serve Up Hope in Oscar-Nominated Film

Restaurant founder and CEO Brandon Chrostowski hires men and women with a single prerequisite: they’ve been incarcerated.

By Emily Andrews
April 30, 2018
CNN | documentary | Edwins Restaurant | Jeremy Mathews | Knife Skills | Oscars | Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) | Shermichael Singleton | Thomas Lennon
New HBO Doc Solitary Goes Inside Supermax Prison
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New HBO Doc ‘Solitary’ Goes Inside Supermax Prison

There are currently 44 state and federal prisons in America classified as "supermax" prisons. These prisons house their entire incarcerated population in solitary confinement.

As "black sites," supermax prisons have been off-limits to the public and the press.

Until now.

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By Emily Harris Greene
January 31, 2017
documentary | HBO | isolation | Red Onion | SOLITARY | Solitary Confinement
A Teens Journey From Promising to Prisoner
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A Teen’s Journey From Promising to Prisoner

Through interviews woven into a one-hour special, the life of a young man named Tourrie Moses unfolds onscreen.

And then it unravels.

The One That Got Away aired on select PBS stations for Spotlight Education, a week of programming on today’s education system and the challenges American students face, according to PR Newswire.

By Emily Andrews
September 24, 2016
Dan Gill | documentary | Mentoring | One That Got Away | PBS | Tourrie Moses | Youth
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Movie Review: “Mothers of Bedford”

Motherhood is already a full-time job. Imagine how difficult it is for those moms facing an extra obstacle: incarceration.

What is it like to be a mother while in prison? Directed by Jenifer McShane, the documentary “Mothers of Bedford” explores the effects of long-term incarceration on mothers’ relationships with their children through the eyes of several women at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York.

By Kate Campbell
May 21, 2014
documentary | incarcerated mothers | mothers | mothers of bedford | New York
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Documentary: ‘Mothers of Bedford’

This week, “America ReFramed” aired its feature-length documentary on the lives of incarcerated moms: “Mothers of Bedford.”

“America ReFramed” is a television series bringing its viewers a “snapshot of the transforming American life.”  Within the last few decades the number of incarcerated women in America has more than doubled, and today, 80 percent of female inmates are biological mothers to school-aged children.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
May 15, 2014
documentary | incarcerated mothers | incarceration | jenifer mcshane | mothers of bedford | women | women in prison

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