Storyville
Season 21 Episode 8 - Last Days of Solitary
In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform programme to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan Edge and his co-director Lauren Mucciolo were given unprecedented access to the solitary unit - and filmed there for more than three years. The result is an extraordinary and harrowing portrait of life in solitary - and a unique document of a radical and risky experiment to reform a prison. The US is the world leader in solitary confinement. More than 80,000 American prisoners live in isolation, some have been there for years, even decades. Solitary is proven to cause mental illness, it is expensive, and it is condemned by many as torture. And yet for decades, it has been one of the central planks of the American criminal justice system.
Episodes in Season 21
Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
85 min
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
85 min
Notes On Blindness
85 min
Life, Animated
85 min
Killing For Love
85 min
Murder in Italy
85 min
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
85 min
Last Days of Solitary
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 2
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 3
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
90 min
Tokyo Girls
85 min
Oink: Man Loves Pig
85 min
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
85 min
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
85 min
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
85 min
Queerama
85 min
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
85 min
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
85 min
The Boy Who Changed America
85 min
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
85 min
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
85 min
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
85 min
My Mother's Lost Children
85 min
Last Men in Aleppo
85 min
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
85 min
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
85 min
