Located on an Appalachian mountaintop in Wise County, Va., Red Onion State Prison is a "supermax" facility built to house individual inmates in 8'x10' solitary-confinement cells, 23 hours a day, for months, years, and sometimes decades
Date/Time: Feb 16 2018, 11:45 am to 2:15 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver International Film FestivalCost: $5.00
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Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison explores life on both sides of the bars, raising provocative questions about punishment in America today. Drawing on unprecedented, unrestricted access, Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison was filmed over the course of one year, chronicling a new reform program intended to reduce the number of solitary-confinement inmates. The recently initiated "Step-Down Program" has allowed more than 350 inmates a chance to return to the general population. But, all too often, after months of solitary isolation, prisoners are ill-equipped to deal with the stresses of being a part of the regular prison population – let alone life on the outside. This unflinching, immersive documentary features intimate interviews with several inmates who reflect on their violent childhoods, open up about the dangers of prison life, and articulate their struggles to maintain sanity in the unrelenting monotony and isolation of confinement."
Hosted by KDocs: Kwantlen Polytechnic University Documentary Film Festival
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