Credits

Director, Producer, Camera
Edgar A. Barens

Editor
Ira Meistrich

Additional Editing
Marsha Moore
Karl Dawson
 
Original Music
Brian T. Tibbs

Project Advisors
Ellen Barry
Founding Director
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
 
Creasie Finney Hairston, Ph. D.
Dean and Professor
Jane Addams College of Social Work
University of Illinois at Chicago
 
Researchers
Mary Cotter
Noel Pinero
 
Research Assistants
Galma Jahic
Kate Black
 
Transcribers/Loggers
Jason Rogers
Samira Seidu
Chad Wheeless
 
Production Assistant
Chad Wheeless
 
Sound Edit/Sound Mix
Bill Seery
Alex Noyes
Mercer Media
 
On-Line Editor
Frank Cernese
 
On-Line Facility
Park Avenue Post, Inc.
 
Title Sequence Design
Brian Tibbs
 
Post - Production Services
The Standby Program Inc.
 
Project Intern
Kate Black
 
Still Photographer
Edgar A. Barens
 
 
Special Thanks to
 
Public Information Officers
Jeffrey Lyons and John Gifford
State of New Hampshire
Department of Corrections
 

Warden Michael Cunningham
New Hampshire State Prison for Men
 

Acting Warden Jane E. Coplan
New Hampshire State Prison for Men
 

Thanks to the following organizations
Abraham House
American Services Committee
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Prisons
CASES
CURE
Criminal Justice Ministries
Criminal Justice Project
CURE-OHIO
eGroups.com
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Families of Incarcerated Individuals
Families with Loved Ones in Prison
Family and Corrections Network
Friends of Prison Families Inc
Friends of the Family Academy
Hour Children, Inc.
Housing Works
Human Rights and the Drug War
Join Together
Justice Works
Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services
Massachusetts CURE
Motion Picture Enterprises, Inc.
New Hampshire Catholic Charities
New York FAMM
November Coalition
Operation Prison Gap
Osborne Association
PACT
Penn-Pals
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison and Jail Project
Prison Legal News
Prisoner Rights Advocacy Center
Prisoners.com
Reconciliation
The Sentencing Project
Single Parent Resource Center
Sistas' Place
The Tennessean
Texas Inmate Families Association
US Department of Justice
Vera Institute of Justice
WBAI 99.5 FM
WomenCare
Women in Transition
Women’s Prison Association
Women's Prison Association
Yale University Dept. of Anthropology
 
Thanks to 
Carrie Adair
Jerry Allen
Mildred Andrews
Brenda Bailey
Rob Bannon
Jessica C. Barens
Teresa Barens
Barbara Benton
Nell Bernstein
Sabrina Billings-Shaw
Linda Birr
Peggy Boles
Donald Braman
Ken Brown
Nora Callahan
Colleen Campbell
Crissie Carter
Tim Chavez
Peter Costanza
Sr. Rosemary Crowley
Luz Cruz
Debbie Curley
Fielding Dawson
Terri Derikart
Marecia Devine
Katherine Diaz
Tricia Dietrich
Laura Downs
Ernest Ebel
David Elvin
Lindsey Enriquez
Penelope Falk
Mishi Faruqee
Carla Fischer
Christy Fischer
Sr. Teresa Fitzgerald
Bro. Michael Flanigan
Lori Galgano
Bill Gallagher
Elizabeth Gaynes
Ben Gold
Teresa Gomez
Yraida Guanipa
Kathleen Guillen
Aurie Hall
Jessie Lee Hardwick
Amy Hawkinson
Sr. Amy Henry
Judd Henry
Marti Hiken
Elizabeth Hittenmark
Erlin Ibreck
Robe Imbriano
Joyce James
Suzanne Jenkins
William J. Johnston, Jr.
Cindy Johnston
Patrice Kanada
Caridad Kelly
Debra Key
Rebecca Kidder
Gil Kline
Vicki L. Lavertue
Tracy Litwin
Diane Malloy
Colbert Martin
Suzanne Mason
Marc Mauer
James McCord
Dow McKeever
Shane D. McPherson
Linda Miller
Beverly Miller
Amparo Mingo
Adam Mosston
Tom Murlowski
Jim Mustin
Stephanie Narro
Susan Nelson
Mikki Norris
Julia O'Farrow
Brigitte Paradis
Rich Paradis
Andrea Payne
Ahna Perdigone
Kay Perry
Rebecca Peters
Neal Pilzer
Sr. Simone Ponnet
Miriam Porter
Fr. Peter Raphael
Martha Raimon
Lisa Rea
Annelise Ream
Heidi Reinberg
Dempsey Rice
Ron Roof
Sue Roof
Ligia Ruiz
Eva Santiago
Michelle Sauve
John Sheppard
Nancy Simmons
Sue Simon
Penny Smith-Cooper
Tilda Sosaya
Charles Sparks
Jeff Stewart
Julie Stewart
Diane Stredicke
Charlie Sullivan
Penny Thacker
Quyhn Thai
Pamela Thrasher
Naomi Tukua
Rick Walker
Lucy Weiner
Rose Whitaker
Sara-Jane Williams
Jack Willis
John Wilmerding
Erica Winston
De Erreol Wright
John Yates

The producer wishes to thank
Becky, Donnie, Josh, Alan, Joyce, and Malcolm
as well as their extended family and friends,
for opening their hearts and lives for the
filming of A Sentence of Their Own.

This film was funded by
The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture
of the Open Society Institute

Copyright ©2001 – Edgar A. Barens
 

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