Motion Pictures Relating to Federal Correctional Institutions and Criminal Justice, 1935–ca. 1985

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Motion Pictures Relating to Federal Correctional Institutions and Criminal Justice, 1935–ca. 1985

1935-1985

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/37456

This series consists of training films, feature films, documentaries, speeches, and bureau reports relating to federal correctional institutions and criminal justice. Subjects covered are prisons, prison procedures, inmate supervision, youth crime, drug abuse, race relations, and rehabilitation. Included in the series are scenes from the 1930s of federal penitentiaries in Alcatraz, California; Leavenworth, Kansas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. There are also documentaries and scenes of significant events such as the riot at the Attica Correctional Facility; the transfer of female inmates to the Federal Reformatory for Women in Seagoville, Georgia; and the opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center in Morgantown, West Virginia.

9 film reels, 12 video cassettes, and 9 optical disks

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

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SNAC Resource ID: 11673203

National Archives at College Park

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United States. Bureau of Prisons

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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was created by the Act of May 14, 1930 (ch.274,- 46 Stat. 325) and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The mission of the Bureau of Prisons was to maintain secure, safe, and humane correctional institutions for individuals placed in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General; to develop and operate correctional programs that seek a balanced application of the concepts of punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation; and provide, primarily through t...

Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

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Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad and moved to New York City with his family in 1952. In 1964 he graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Philosophy; the same year he became a field secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he was elected chairman of SNCC....