A documentary series that examines prisons and their purposes.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/prison-document/
Classification and receiving center of a prison
This program examines the classification and receiving center of a prison system which has only recently experienced reform. The board discusses and interviews prisoners, and makes known their prison assignments.
Southern prison and road camp
This program takes the listener into a southern prison and road camp, follows the prisoners as they are loaded into a truck under armed guard, work on the highway, and return for the evening meal.
Life in custody
This program considers the mechanics of day-to-day life in custody and notes the subtle distortion such activity takes on when related to punishment for crime.
Prison discipline
This program takes a closer look at prison discipline. The listener hears a warden who deplores the passing of the lash. The program presents the dilemma of how to control hardened criminals and still rehabilitate them.