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BCTV News Hour Access - Women in Prison 1974

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An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, documenting women in BC prisons, heroine addiction, and rehabilitation. Piece includes interviews with Ian Mass of the City Youth Centre, Marilyn Brager of the E. Fry Society, “Georgialee,” “Mirium,” and one other unidentified woman; shot at Twin Maples Institution, Okala Women’s Prison, and Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES). Item produced in 1974 by Margit Nance for BCTV, Vancouver affiliate of the Global Television Network (formerly CTV) in British Columbia, Canada. Rob Riskin, director. Eric Cable and Grant Faint, film camera. Harlan Dorfman, film editor. C. Ross Ormand, audio. Tom Lebrechthausen, technical director. Margit Nance, producer. 23 mins. 48 secs.

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Margit Nance for BCTV

Subjects

Communes, Hastings Street, British Columbia, Margit Nance, BCTV, BCTV News Hour, BCTV Access, BC Corrections, Heroine Addiction, Women’s Prisons, heroine

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