Prison for Profit (2019)

Name: Prison for Profit
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-03-13T17:28:16+01:00
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Documentary | 83 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 83 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Ilse van Velzen and Femke van Velzen

IMDb score: 7,1 (33)

Releasedate: 24 November 2019

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Prison for Profit plot

In 2001, Mangaung Prison, South Africa's first privately run penitentiary, opened. As manager, the security company G4S, a British multi-billion dollar company, promised the most humane treatment and the best facilities for three thousand prisoners, for the lowest price of course. This soon turned out to be mainly sales talk. Leaked surveillance videos and testimonies from guards and former inmates revealed stories of excessive violence and neglect. Testimonials from whistleblowers and ex-convicts and the findings of investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins make clear what privatization of the prison system actually means.