Welcome to Cañon City, Colorado.
A town in the middle of nowhere with 36,000 souls and 13 prisons, one of which is Supermax, the new 'Alcatraz' of America. A prison town where even those living on the outside live on the inside. A journey into what the future might hold.
A web documentary by David Dufresne & Philippe Brault.
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Awards
- World Press Photo (Amsterdam) : first prize of the interactive category for the multimedia contest
- AIB (England) : Best cross-media/online production
- Grimme Online Award (Germany) : knowledge and education award (best execution)
- Visa pour l'image RFI/France 24 (Perpignan, France): best webdocumentary
- Sheffield (England): Innovation Award (special mention)
- FWA: Site of the day
- Film festival Bellaria (Italy) : Best Crossmedia program
- Prix Italia (Torino, Italia): best interactive site linked to a TV program
Official Selections 2010
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The society punishes itself by allowing or supporting the same treatment of inmates with such a different crimes. We imprison a guy who committed a crime. Fine with me. Yet, who do we set free after endless years of unbalanced mental and physical pressure?
by nesko on Jan 19, 2012 in 1:00
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I worked at the recycling plant when i was housed at Skyline. We had a monopoly on recycling in Canon City. Businesses would normally have to pay to get their cardboard and other recyclicable trash picked up...so what did CCi do? They went to these businesses and told them we would pick it up for free.…
by shackzilla88 on Aug 18, 2011 in 19:11
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