The Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Missouri, opened in 1988 and has a capacity of 1,975 high - medium security inmates. In 2008, inmates and filmakers collaborated on several projects including:  The single-channel video Time and Time Again was produced during an extended collaborative project with inmates at Northeast Correctional Center (NECC), a close-security men’s prison in Bowling Green, Missouri. The script is written as a long list of common clichés, proverbs, and other familiar sayings about time, arranged to create a through-line as it progresses. Filmed inside the prison, the phrases are recited by a group of 20 actors from NECC and are edited into quick succession. The language is by nature generic and overly familiar, phrases we have heard over and over, but who is speaking them makes all the difference to their meaning.
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Recently, NECC has been in the news because an inmate at the facility threatened to kill President Barack Obama in a letter. The inmate, Josh Randall McCallum, faces federal charges that could land him five more years in prison. Missouri inmate charged with threatening to kill President Obama in letter mailed from prisonMO Department of Corrections - Northeast Correctional CenterNortheast Correctional Center - Missouri - Profile - Prison TalkAlberici Enterprises: State of Missouri Northeast Correctional CenterNortheast Correctional CenterTo submit a little known fact about this or any other prison, or to suggest a prison for next week's featured prison, please email me at vlu777@gmail.comArchive of all Featured Prisons on Genpop.orgTechnorati Tags: prison, crime, law, assassination, threat, barack obama, president, inmate, letter, northeast correctional center, missouri, bowling green
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