Penitentiary

Canada, 1951

Film
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Episode of Series “Canada carries on”.
A report on life and conditions in one of Canada’s penal institutions, illustrating current trends in the treatment of criminals. Defiant and contemptuous of society, a young first offender is brought to a federal penitentiary. The film shows the descipline, the confinement and the rigid routines which are part of a prisoner’s expiation for crime. It also deals with the challenge, now recognized by penitentiary authorities - either to change the prisoner into a law-abiding citizen or to have them come back a repeater - and with the new psychological approach which endeavours to determine the basic causes of a person’s wrong-doing.

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Credits

director

Ronald Weyman

producer

Sydney Newman

production company

National Film Board of Canada

Duration

00:10:42:00

Production places
Canada
Production dates
1951

Appears in

Canada carries on

Group of items

Canada carries on

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