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Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories

Inside Women Inside

20m

Directed by Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio • 1978 • United States

Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio offer a rare look at the degradation faced by women in prison, interviewing women who suffer daily within a system that disregards their humanity and neglects their basic needs.

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