Television Review | Prison Town, USA : Welcome to Susanville, Home to Prisons
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âPrison Town, USA,â a smartly constructed documentary tonight on the PBS series âP.O.V.,â explores the âafterâ debate in Susanville, a small city in Northern California.
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JERUSALEM -- For nearly four months in solitary confinement, BBC correspondent Alan Johnston felt "buried alive" but buoyed by international support he knew was out there by listening to his network's radio broadcasts.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 9--PALMER -- South Palmer residents were ecstatic Friday when word went out that a gravel pit three miles south of the quaint farming town was no longer being considered a potential spot for the largest prison in Alaska.
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RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. -- Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp in a federal detention system rapidly gearing up to keep pace with Washington's increasing demand for stronger enforcement of immigration laws.
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An American detaineeâs story illuminates the haphazard system of detention and prosecution that has evolved in Iraq.
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Wesley Spratt's house of worship is a cramped, windowless chapel at a maximum-security prison. A cross adorns a cinderblock wall and eight wooden benches seat the inmate congregation.
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Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of all places.
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At the instigation of a human rights group, television shows are rethinking interrogation scenes. Even Jack Bauer is on board.
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The âAmerican Experienceâ documentary âGrand Centralâ is such an entertaining wallow for New York PBS viewers that itâs disconcerting to note that it was produced in Boston.
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By Wayne Ezell  Television viewers on th
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A comedy beginning on the Starz channel on Wednesday night, âHollywood Residentialâ chronicles the personalities behind a fictitious home-makeover show.
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AH, CALIFORNIA. The land of warm sunshine. Plentiful beaches. Stunning scenery. Hollywood glitz.  Who wouldn't want to live there? Well, maybe not the inmates jammed into the Golden State's overcrowded prison system.
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As a lifelong resident of Louisiana, the U.S. state that gave us  Huey Long and  David Duke, I have always  taken comfort in the fact that my home state is an island  of insanity in a country that mostly gets it right.    But lately I recognize some disturbingly familiar trends on  the national scene.  Listen if you will to the tale of two  elections, and decide for yourself if the USA as a whole is  turning into Louisiana.
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A prison in the Philippines was once infamous for violence. Now, it's famous for something much different: Orange-clad prisoners twirling in unison, thumping to the beat of hit tunes. An alleged murderer tells CNN's Hugh Riminton dancing has taught him "love."
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One precaution TV icon Martha Stewart must take when serving her sentence at the Alderson, West Virginia, prison is refrain from doing any business.
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The official site features a collection of screenshots and videos profiling people, places, and activities on tap in the fictional Liberty City.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...