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A Clockwork Orange (audio book)

 

Anthony Burgess discusses 

A Clockwork Orange

 

Beethoven's Symphony 9, Op. 125

Thousands of inmates are housed in Chino Prison, just 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Just beyond the barbed wire fences, guard tours, and orange jumpsuits, there's a small group of inmates enrolled in one of the toughest prison rehabilitation programs in the world, an 18-month long Marine Technology Training Center.
 

Grab a ticket to a very unusual theater. Its scene is behind bars and the actors are the inmates. The repertoire is quite diverse: from "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes From the House of the Dead ".

This is a documentary about a prison theater program in the Ramsey County Correctional Facility.

The inmates incarcerated with the Arizona Department of Corrections are offered Education, Counseling, Substance Abuse Treatment, Job Training and Work Opportunities to help them prepare for their release, and to help them rejoin society as law-abiding, productive citizens.

Castaways is a documentary series chronicling the successful rehabilitation program of inmates training unwanted dogs for re-introduction or adoption, while highlighting the plight that both prisoners and dogs face and how an unlikely union brings out a change in character of both man and beast - Each trying to save and serve one another.

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

Flash Mob - "Ode an die Freude"

("Ode to Joy") from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

Closing ceremony for Young Offenders Recovery Skills (YORS), a unique and innovative program for rehabilitating young prison inmates using New Decision Therapyâ„¢ (NDT). Dr Kandis Blakely, PhD, designed and oversaw the program, which aimed to rehabilitate young offenders before than become long term habitual criminals.

An innovative Corrections Victoria program is helping injured birds return to the wild. 

Beechworth Correctional Centre's raptor rehabilitation program sees individual prisoners take responsibility for nursing injured birds back to health before they are released

There are nearly 70,000 people in Italian prisons, 50 percent more than the jails were built to hold.
That makes them the most overcrowded in Europe - and makes rehabilitation even more of a challenge.  But Rebibbia Prison in Rome, built in 1972, was designed to specialise in rehabilitation, providing work and opportunities for inmates.

A powerful debate is underway in Sweden about the country's jail policy. The country's prison authorities claim their programme of rehabilitation is helping to keep offenders away from crime. Combined with courts passing shorter sentences, the numbers of inmates have fallen by more than twenty percent over the past decade.

Open Prison (2011): Far from locking up prisoners and throwing away the key, Greenland's authorities give inmates the keys to their own cells. Is this a revolutionary approach to crime control, or just irresponsible?
 

Excerpt from the documentary series. Full episode with English subtitles here: http://youtu.be/HfEsz812Q1I
 

James Conway, retired Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic prisons and facilities. What methods are used in the correctional facilities of the Nordic countries? How do they differ compared to the US? Host: Joakim Rundt.

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