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Life inside Scotland's only female prison, HMP & YOI Cornton Vale.

Documentary series of 10 episodes (60 min) filmed over a year in Scotland's only women's prison HM Prison Cornton Vale, which reveals an intimate and often shocking portrait of jail life. Ten hour of close-up following of the lives of some of the 450 prisoners and staff. Between 1995 and 2010 the women's prison population in England and Wales more than doubled-with over 4,000 women held in prison.—Ulf Kjell Gür

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Keywords
  • prison
Genres
  • Documentary
Release date Sep 30, 2008
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations HMP & YOI Cornton Vale, Cornton Road, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Production companies BBC Scotland Friel Kean Films

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