Description: Inmates with AIDS get inadequate medical attention & pose health threat to others in prison. Robert Rufo says county jail infirmary not equipped to treat communicable diseases.
Description: Michael Keating of Boston Bar Association says sentencing is disproportionate to crime & disagrees with Weld's stance on lengthening and toughening sentences. Many shots of overcrowded prison.
Description: Health clinic at Billerica House of Correction. Nurse Donna listens to inmate's chest with stethoscope. Dispensary of medical supplies on shelves and in locked cabinets. Crutches and canes hang on wall. Infirmary ward with one patient asleep on bunk. Exterior of prison with cupola and ivy.
Description: Birmingham Six, wrongly suspected IRA terrorists, free after 15 years in prison. Convictions reversed because of coerced confessions &evidence tampering. Christine McAuley of Sinn Fein. Shirley Williams.