POV Season 3 Episode 1 - Through the Wire

Airdate: 1990-Jun-26

Episode summary:

In 1986, three women convicted of politically motivated nonviolent offenses were transferred to a secret, subterranean prison where they were kept in constantly lit near isolation, watched 24 hours a day and strip-searched routinely for nearly two years. The women were not imprisoned in Turkey or Iran or Chile, but in Lexington, Ky.

About POV series:

POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14...Show more >