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Survival of the Meanest
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There are two sets of rules at Folsom Maximum Security Prison: the "guard rules" and the "yard rules." For an incoming inmate, negotiating the brutal yet invisible prison culture can be deadly. Thi...
There are two sets of rules at Folsom Maximum Security Prison: the "guard rules" and the "yard rules." For an incoming inmate, negotiating the brutal yet invisible prison culture can be deadly. This program takes viewers inside Folsom to learn how the system works. From the severely regimented rules enforced by prison authorities to the unwritten codes that any inmate who wants to survive must obey, there has never been an escape. It is a confusing and dangerous maze in which new fish, for their own safety, must align themselves with gangs and avoid more powerful predators. And yet, as one inmate puts it, "There are no fish in prison-only sharks.
Details
- Creator
- National Geographic Television & Film
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781616165147
- OCLC
- ocn741359673
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Jan. 13, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Introduction: Survival of the Meanest (1:21) -- Entering Maximum Security (1:14) -- Orientation at Maximum Security (1:51) -- Prison Race Rules (1:21) -- Race Riot at Pelican Bay State Prison (1:14) -- Prison Layout (1:19) -- Homemade Contraband (1:34) -- Tracking Contraband (1:40) -- Self Preservation (0:55) -- Prison Code (1:14) -- Prepared for Anything (0:53) -- Inside the Control Room (1:53) -- Policies of the Yard (1:41) -- Invisible Lines on the Yard (1:13) -- Code of Silence (1:53) -- Waiting to be Classified (1:22) -- Threats on the Yard (1:47) -- Subtle Signs of Trouble on the Yard (1:11) -- Riot on the Yard (1:29) -- Inmate Survival (1:46) -- Yard Assignment (1:54) -- Yard Strategy (1:03) -- Getting Established on the Yard (1:38) -- Driven to the Edge (1:50) -- Prison Time (2:07) -- Its About Respect (1:07) -- Yard of Shame (1:45) -- Rise and Fall of A Gang Leader (2:57) -- A Different Set of Rules (2:26) -- Staying out of trouble on the Yard (1:36) -- Prison Exit (1:43) -- Adaping to Life Outside Prison (1:32) -- Surviving the Prison Social Code (1:53)