At Sing Sing Prison, Incarcerated Men Get Preview of New PBS Documentary on Nation's Justice System
The four-part series examines the system’s evolution from colonial times to today, with voices from legal scholars, prisoners, victims’ families and corrections officers.
- On Friday, around 30 incarcerated men at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York previewed a 47-minute reel from the new PBS docuseries "Crime and Punishment in America" ahead of its Monday premiere.
- Filmmaker Lynn Novick developed the four-part series with collaborator Ken Burns to trace the justice system's evolution; Sing Sing marks the sixth correctional facility screening following previews in Maine, Connecticut, California, Washington, and Rikers.
- New York State Department of Correction Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III authorized the event as an extension of the prison's Rehabilitation Through the Arts workshops, which sparked animated discussion among attendees about justice and societal perception.
- Sing Sing prisoner John Rizzo asked the panel what "rehabilitation" means to society, noting "When we come in here, we're tainted," while Michael Shane Hale challenged the public to reconsider how to treat transformed people.
- The eight-hour series premieres Monday on PBS, featuring legal scholars, victims' families, and formerly incarcerated people to foster new conversations about justice in America, which holds the world's largest incarcerated population of nearly two million.
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At Sing Sing prison, incarcerated men get preview of new PBS documentary on nation’s justice system – WTOP News
OSSINING, New York (AP) — As the lights dimmed inside the chapel at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, around 30 incarcerated men sat scattered across the pews, waiting to preview a new docuseries on the history of the nation’s criminal justice system. Our Lady of Hope chapel was soon abuzz with discussion, as some learned new things about an American institution with which they already have a great deal of personal experience. The…
At Sing Sing prison, incarcerated men get preview of new PBS documenta
OSSINING, New York (AP) — As the lights dimmed inside the chapel at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, around 30 incarcerated men sat scattered across the pews, waiting to preview a new docuseries on
The inmates of the Sing Sing penitentiary premiered a new document series on the history of the national criminal justice system.
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