Introduction to Corrections
Multimedia Resources
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Video Links
Video 1: Life in Prison for a Sex Offender
Description: This National Geographic prison documentary describes life behind bars for sex offenders in Fremont Correctional Facility in Colorado.
Video 2: HIV and Women in Prison
Description: This United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) video highlights the epidemic of AIDS among women in prisons across the globe.
Audio Links
Audio 1: Tempering the Cost of Aging, Dying in Prison With the Demands of Justice
Description: This audio recording highlights the challenges inmates face while aging and dying in prison and the role the corrections system has in caring for them.
Audio 2: Even After Sentences Are Served, Many Sex Offenders in Illinois Prisons Cannot Leave
Description: Lack of housing opportunities for sex offenders postrelease are addressed in this audio clip.
Web Resources
Web 1: The Guidelines for Protection of Transgender Prisoner Just Got Rewritten
Description: This NPR article discusses Federal Bureau of Prisons’ guidelines to protect LBGTIQ inmates.
Web 2: HIV in Prisons, 2015 - Statistical Tables
Description: The number of state prisoners who were infected with HIV are described and graphically displayed.