Extra Credit - Brubaker

DUE: NLT Week of November 11
POINTS: Up to 10 
LENGTH: About 800+ words (3+ pages)

Check out the movie BRUBAKER (with Robert Redford)

Then:

1) Summarize the story

2) Wat are the conditions that the prisoners face that you consider
extreme?

3) How do you think such conditions could exist well past the middle of  the
20t century?

4) Could these conditions exist today? (why/why not?)

5) If you were to write a lecture for a criminology course, what relevance 
would you say that it had for the course. Can it be tied to prisoners
rigts?

6) List 5 points that you would want your students to take from the movie

7) Does the movie advocate punishment, rehabilitation, or something else?

8) Can you identify a "correctional ideology" in te movie?

9) Does it provide insights into the necessity of prisoner litigation?

NOTE: THIS *MUST* BE IN ESSAY FORMAT - the list of points is to
guide your thinking

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