Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hill

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KILLING TIME
Roxie Theatre Sat, Jun 7, 2014 4:45 PM
When Elroy Chester was convicted for raping two teenage girls and killing their uncle in 1998, he was sentenced to death. After 15 years on death row with his final moments approaching, we hear frank accounts from Chester’s sisters as well as the rape victims and their family. All their emotions are set against the backdrop of a media circus that descends upon the Huntsville Penitentiary as Texas prepares for it’s 499th execution. Screens with Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. - JM
KILLING TIME
Roxie Theatre Mon, Jun 9, 2014 9:15 PM
When Elroy Chester was convicted for raping two teenage girls and killing their uncle in 1998, he was sentenced to death. After 15 years on death row with his final moments approaching, we hear frank accounts from Chester’s sisters as well as the rape victims and their family. All their emotions are set against the backdrop of a media circus that descends upon the Huntsville Penitentiary as Texas prepares for it’s 499th execution. Screens with Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. - JM
KILLING TIME
Oakland School for the Arts Sat, Jun 14, 2014 9:30 PM
When Elroy Chester was convicted for raping two teenage girls and killing their uncle in 1998, he was sentenced to death. After 15 years on death row with his final moments approaching, we hear frank accounts from Chester’s sisters as well as the rape victims and their family. All their emotions are set against the backdrop of a media circus that descends upon the Huntsville Penitentiary as Texas prepares for it’s 499th execution. Screens with Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. - JM
Film Info
Director:Edgar Barens
Running Time:40
Country:USA
Year of Release:2014
Premiere:World Premiere

Description

Something revolutionary is happening behind the walls of the Iowa State Penitentiary where a unique prison hospice is transforming the final days of the all but forsaken lives of the incarcerated. Staffed by volunteer hospice trained prisoners, terminally sick inmates are moved to the hospice program where they are treated with respect and compassion something not easily come by in Maximum Security Prison.