TURNED OUT: SEXUAL ASSAULT BEHIND BARS
Price: $275.00 Code: 1943 |
Directed by Jonathan Schwartz
2003, 55 minutes
Purchase: $275 Classroom Rental: $95
Of the over two million Americans in jail today, one out of five inmates will be sexually assaulted during their incarceration. Most of those who will be "turned out," or sodomized, and turned into sexual slaves, will be nonviolent drug offenders who have doubled the prison population over the last decade. This video is a shocking but insightful expose of the taboo subject of homosexual rape and homosexual relations in prison. It features frank and often graphic interviews with inmates at correctional facilities throughout the U.S., in which they explain the sexual hierarchy of "boys" or "sissies," who play the female role to more powerful inmates known as "men," with the latter often developing relationships with several "boys" and thus developing "families," which provide sex, companionship and protection for more vulnerable inmates. Prisoners also discuss the underground economy, the sociology of power and lust, and the sexual exploitation of inmates by prison guards, while interviews with a prison warden and family members of inmates reveal the general awareness of sexual assault within our prison system and the culture of silence which enables its perpetuation.
New 2007 DVD with hours of bonus material!
Deleted Scenes
Perspectives
Music Videos
Tattoos
Image Gallery
Where Are They Now?
Resources
Director's Commentary
Winner, Best of Festival Award, Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Winner, Indie Spec Best Jury Award, Boston International Film Festival
Winner, Indian Telly Awards - Bronze
Official Selection, NewFest (New York Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgender Film Festival)
Official Selection, Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film + Video Festival
Official Selection, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Official Selection, Detroit Docs International Film Festival
Official Selection, Atlanta Urban Mediamakers Film Festival
Official Selection, Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
2003, 55 minutes
Purchase: $275 Classroom Rental: $95
Of the over two million Americans in jail today, one out of five inmates will be sexually assaulted during their incarceration. Most of those who will be "turned out," or sodomized, and turned into sexual slaves, will be nonviolent drug offenders who have doubled the prison population over the last decade. This video is a shocking but insightful expose of the taboo subject of homosexual rape and homosexual relations in prison. It features frank and often graphic interviews with inmates at correctional facilities throughout the U.S., in which they explain the sexual hierarchy of "boys" or "sissies," who play the female role to more powerful inmates known as "men," with the latter often developing relationships with several "boys" and thus developing "families," which provide sex, companionship and protection for more vulnerable inmates. Prisoners also discuss the underground economy, the sociology of power and lust, and the sexual exploitation of inmates by prison guards, while interviews with a prison warden and family members of inmates reveal the general awareness of sexual assault within our prison system and the culture of silence which enables its perpetuation.
New 2007 DVD with hours of bonus material!
Deleted Scenes
Perspectives
Music Videos
Tattoos
Image Gallery
Where Are They Now?
Resources
Director's Commentary
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Festivals & Awards
Winner, Best Documentary, Oxford Film FestivalWinner, Best of Festival Award, Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Winner, Indie Spec Best Jury Award, Boston International Film Festival
Winner, Indian Telly Awards - Bronze
Official Selection, NewFest (New York Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgender Film Festival)
Official Selection, Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film + Video Festival
Official Selection, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Official Selection, Detroit Docs International Film Festival
Official Selection, Atlanta Urban Mediamakers Film Festival
Official Selection, Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival