Stacey Dooley: Locked up with the Lifers

Taal: nld
Categorie: Documentaire

Stacey Dooley travels to Iowa to investigate one of the most radical women's prisons in America. The Correctional Institute for Women is a new 80-million-pound facility which houses more than 700 female offenders, from drunk drivers to violent murderers. For the last three years, the prison has been run by Sheryl Dahm, a warden with a difference. Rather than placing discipline and punishment at the heart of her regime, she tries to instil in the women a sense of purpose and self-esteem. She permits the women all kinds of freedom: therapy dogs, make-up and - if they behave - the chance to move freely around the prison. Stacey gets to know one particular group - the lifers, who make up around ten per cent of the prison population. They are the mothers, daughters, sisters and wives who have said goodbye to the ones they love forever. These are women hidden from mainstream society, leading parallel existences behind bars.