Wormwood_Scrubs《沃姆伍德._斯克拉比斯监狱》

社会科学类纪录片,ITV 频道 2010 年出品。

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  • 中文片名 :沃姆伍德. 斯克拉比斯监狱
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  • 英文片名 :Wormwood Scrubs
  • 英文系列名:
  • 电视台 :ITV
  • 地区 :英国
  • 语言 :英语
  • 版本 :TV
  • 发行时间 :2010

Docu-drama marking the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial, which was organised as a means of sentencing senior-ranking Nazis at the end of World War Two. The programme offers an insight into the lives of the prisoners, based on true testimonies and records. It also portrays a secret duel between Hermann Goering and his jailer US Colonel Burton Andrus - ending with an account of the events leading up to Hitler’s henchman’s suicide.

The first programme focuses on the staff of Wormwood Scrubs and on the severe, testing conditions they work under.

The film shows officers in the segregation unit attempt to manage one of the prison’s most disruptive offenders. After he smashes his cell they are forced to remove him with shields and body armour.

Then they must counsel him in order to get him to give up a piece of glass he has concealed before he can harm himself or others. Eventually he is moved on for his and the prison’s own good.

The film reveals the shocking truth about the availability of drugs in the prison with as many as ten dealers to one wing. One prisoner talks candidly of how people deliberately commit crime to get into prison to “get rich” by dealing drugs.

The frightening array of home made weapons which prisoners use is shown, including a toothbrush made a lethal weapon by the addition of five razor blades.

The cameras follow the staff as they deal with a suicide in prison and then attempt to keep order on the wing as it erupts in a fit of anger.

The life of one prisoner is in the balance when he self harms. He is estranged from his girlfriend, and can’t cope. He is comforted by a senior officer in the segregation unit.

The second programme focuses on what life is like for the prisoners in one of Europe’s biggest and toughest jails at Christmas, when they miss their families most.

Governor Phil Taylor says Christmas is a crucial time and the staff have to be aware of the effect of being away from families has on the prisoners.

The film shows how tension rises in the prison as Christmas approaches. One prisoner carries out a dirty protest in his cell, another wrecks his cell and rips off a metal hatch door to use as a weapon, and one is stabbed in the neck with a pencil.

One prisoner has applied for a transfer to an open prison so he can see more of his family.

“All I want to do in life is be a good Dad, I just want to kick a ball around with my boys,” he says.

He records bed time stories for his sons, and the film shows the boys listening to them at home with their mum.

Another prisoner is seen writing a moving letter to his estranged daughter.

Another inmate finds it almost impossible to survive outside prison.

“I have a nice life in prison. I have a roof over my head, and I don’t have anything to worry about. The people in prison are my family. The prison is my home,” he says.

Christmas Day in Wormwood Scrubs begins with a carol service and a full roast turkey lunch is served. But otherwise it is just another day inside for the prisoners and staff.

Wormwood Scrubs is a Wild Pictures production for ITV1. The Series Producer is James Cohen and the Executive Producer is Paul Hamann. The director is Jamie Berry.

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