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Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different

Uses a historical perspective to examine the so-called war on drugs & crime as an "undeclared war on African Americans." The work of scholar-activist Angela Davis is drawn on to explore the political & social limits of 18th-century notions of the Enlightenment on which US & English penitentiaries were founded. Special attention is given to how these ideals were "bent beyond recognition" during the US Civil War. Prisons became wholesale exploiters of black labor in the surviving white supremacist state, & Slave Codes were replaced with Black Codes that criminalized minor acts like absence from work, for which only blacks were convicted & imprisoned. American national culture is said to rest on a notion of whiteness that views blackness as an indication of subordination & powerlessness. The USSR's demise allowed fear of communism to be replaced with fear of crime, drugs, immigration, & welfare that targets African Americans. The dramatic increase in black imprisonment diminished black urban political power & representation, thereby serving the long-term interests of white, conservative political power. J. Lindroth

An important historical record of a traumatic period in India's recent political history, this film focuses on the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977. During the Emergency the media was muzzled, over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. But political prisoners existed before the Emergency, and they continue to exist even after it is over