October 17, 2011
Two private prison documentaries to air tomorrow night
PBS-Frontline will air an investigative report titled, “Lost in Detention” October 18 at 6pm Pacific Time.
CNBC will premiere the documentary, “Billions Behind Bars: Inside the American Prison Industry.” at 9 pm Pacific time.
Please check local listings for any changes.
A brief summary of both documentaries is pasted below:
FRONTLINE Presents: Lost in Detention
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS
Last year, the Obama administration set new records for detaining and deporting immigrants who were inside the country illegally. The government plans to best those numbers in 2011, removing more than 400,000 people. In partnership with American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop, FRONTLINE correspondent Maria Hinojosa takes a penetrating look at Obama’s vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention in Lost in Detention, airing Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings)...
Read more at...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/race-multicultural/lost-in-detention/press-release-4/
www.pbs.org/frontline/lost-in-detention
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CNBC tomorrow night
On Tuesday, October 18th at 9pm, CNBC will premiere the documentary, “Billions Behind Bars: Inside the American Prison Industry.”
Given your interest in the correctional industry, we wanted to share this information with you. Please share this information with your community via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. Attached is a newsletter about the show and below is a clip. For more information please visit www.prisonindustry.cnbc.com. Also, feel free to link back to the show page with the keyword 'prison industry’.
Is America addicted to prisons? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brTjT1fDWuI
ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY:
Premieres, Tuesday, October 18th 9p | 10p | 12a | 1a ET
With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars – while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This reliance on mass incarceration has created a thriving prison economy. The states and the federal government spend about $74 billion a year on corrections, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry. Watch as CNBC goes behind the razor wires to investigate the profits and inner-workings of the multi-billion dollar corrections industry.
