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Penitentiary is a 1979 American blaxploitation drama film written, produced and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone, a man who deals with his wrongful imprisonment as a black youth. The film was released on November 21, 1979.
A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Western countries. [1] In the United Kingdom and United States, they came out of social concerns about cities, poverty, immigration, and gender following industrialization , as well as from a ...
Reviews of this work are mixed: Myra C. Glenn, writing for The American Historical Review says: "Despite my criticisms of Colvin's book, it is one of the few texts that provides undergraduate students with a readable, concise history of punishment and penal institutions in the nineteenth-century United States. If used judiciously by teachers ...
The Spirit of '76 is a 1917 American silent film about the American Revolutionary War directed by Frank Montgomery and starring Adda Gleason and Howard Gaye.Produced by German-American film producer Robert Goldstein, the film would prove to be controversial upon release for its depiction of the British, and Goldstein was subsequently sent to a federal prison for violating the Espionage Act.
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States.It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
Penitentiary II is a 1982 American blaxploitation drama film directed by Jamaa Fanaka. Released on April 2, 1982, the film is the sequel to 1979's Penitentiary . It was followed by another sequel, Penitentiary III , which was released in August 1987.
While schools are given an average yearly budget of 11 billion to school food programs and prisons are given a mere 205 million annual budget, still only less than one third of school food ...
During film school, Fanaka wrote, produced and directed Emma Mae (1976). The film focuses on a young woman who arrives in Los Angeles from Mississippi to live with her mother's sister and her family after her mother dies, and survives the culture shock that accompanies the move; Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975), about the ravages and dire consequences of racism; and Penitentiary (1979), the ...