Inside Women Inside
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By Christine Choy & Cynthia Maurizio
Produced by Third World Newsreel
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This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. using firsthand
accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women, the Correctional
Institute for Women at Rikers Island in New York City, and the Elmhurst General
Hospital in New York City.
Most Americans probably have some inkling as to the conditions that exist in the
prisons of the United States. Most are probably wrong, as this compelling documentary
points out. The work of veteran filmmaker Christine Choy has often been concerned
with revising our commonly and uncritically held views, most often with hard-hitting
footage that simply marvels. Inside Women Inside, which is no exception, exposes
the daily humiliation faced by women in U.S. prisons using the very personal accounts
of the inmates themselves. It's a film that's so well put together that
it's depressing to be moved by such a sad subject. - Brian Whitener,
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