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Dinizulu Kamau discusses violence against inmates in the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU), 10 Block

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Deare, Beth Clarke, Brian Barrow-Murray, Barbara

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This clip is from the program which offers an in-depth look at the policies, procedures, and inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, one of the most controversial maximum-security correctional facilities in the United States. Throughout the four days spent interviewing Walpole's inmates and staff, Say Brother documented the discriminatory application of the internal classification system (resulting in African Americans serving longer sentences and being placed in stricter confines), the virtual absence of minority staff, and the punitive rather than rehabilitative programs at the prison, particularly those of the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU), 10 Block. (Say Brother was afforded the unusual privilege of being able to enter and obtain footage of 10 Block.) Those interviewed include Fred A. Butterworth (Superintendent of Walpole), Paul DiPaolo (a Walpole Social Worker), Carol Gabel (Director of Prisoner Programs), and Thomas DaSilva (Supervisor of DSU/10 Block). (See Program 923 for additional information on inmates Dinizulu Kamau and Adbullah Khalil Sabree.) Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.
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Holden, DickLewis, WebsterHarriston, ReneeMelendez, CaleniaPugliesi, JoeHudson, HarveyEhrman, SallyHill, RebeccaCarey, NancyHugentugler, CarolMackles, GeneJohnson, NatMerhar, MilanMorton, WilWong, EvelynSt. Onge, DavidWhite, DonBuccheri, RonKoppel, TiitSmith, LeeLane, FrankSmith, Kathy
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Keywords

  1. African American Prisoners
  2. African Americans
  3. Butterworth, Fred A
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Classification
  6. Correctional Institutions
  7. Da Silva, Thomas
  8. Di Paolo, Paul
  9. Discrimination
  10. Discrimination In Criminal Justice Administration
  11. Gabel, Carol
  12. Kamau, Dinizulu (Efrid Brown, Jr.)
  13. Massachusetts
  14. Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole
  15. Prison Administration
  16. Prisoners
  17. Sabree, Abdullah Khalil (William Johnson)
  18. Segregation

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