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From One Prison...
Carol Jacobsen | USA | 1994 | 70 min. | documentary video

Told through the voices of four women serving life or long-term prison sentences for fighting back in self-defense against their abusive husbands or lovers, From One Prison exposes a legal system that blatantly discriminates against women, punishing and silencing them through indifference and aggressive cruelty. Shot within the prison itself, this intimate and powerful documentary presents women who are both articulate and dignified as they describe survival issues that extend from the domestic to the criminal justice spheres.

New York Premiere, 1995 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by Carol Jacobsen, 180 Alhambra, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, Tel/Fax: (313) 662-0776.

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