Paul Mason "The Screen Machine" and Rafter Ch.6

In the article there has been little work on the effect of media representations of prison on public attitudes. The media coverage on prisons has contributed to the public's misinformation about prisons. This kind of misrepresentation on prisons don't only effect the public's information about them but also the the prisons practitioners.  People who get hired for to work for prisons go in there thinking they know how it will be and find out it is nothing like they were informed through films and news media. Most people get their information about prisons from movies, which most of the time are misrepresented. Also, if you think about it, you never see prison media in newspapers or on news channels. It's really hard to get information from the guards or anyone who works there.  Nelli's mentions in his article that there are no more than 12 different plots in all prison films that have been made, like escape, riots, inmate and officer violence, wrongful convictions, and etc. Since the 1940's prion films have declined and I bet it's because they are all the same and have the same plot line. No one likes watching the same stuff over and over, like they all tell you when you can eat, sleep, play and make phone calls. One thing prion films are good for are to make the audience think twice before committing a crime. I know I wouldn't want to be isolated from the world ever.

Rafter Ch. 6
 We find our self watching prison films because we like seeing justice served and we like to see it work properly, which isn't always the case.  When it comes to news media corrections and incarceration receives very little attention because they think it's not  newsworthy enough, which isn't true. I think the corrections and news media have failed to communicate with each other properly. We believe people who are in prison are being dehumanized but seeing movies that show them making friendships make us look at them more like humans like they are and not like animals locked in cages to be laughed at and watched. We hope that the system is working to rehabilitate them so when they are released in the real world they will  do what is right and set a new paths in their life. But we know most of the time this doesn't work. When locked in prison for so long inmates don't think they can make it in the real world so they commit more crime because that's all they know how to do and believe in. We watch these films because we want to see friendships building, we don't want to see them suffering alone, and to remind us that there are still good people in prisons.