Prison official disciplined for screening 'Brokeback Mountain'
Last Updated Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:35:15 EDT
CBC Arts
A correctional officer in Massachusetts is being disciplined for screening the award-winning film Brokeback Mountain for inmates.
Actors Heath Ledger (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain.' (Photo: Kimberly French/Courtesy Odeon Films).
Diane Wiffin, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said this weekend that the disciplinary action was due to the film's "graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes."
She denied that the action was because of the film's subject matter:
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Last Updated Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:35:15 EDT
CBC Arts
A correctional officer in Massachusetts is being disciplined for screening the award-winning film Brokeback Mountain for inmates.
Actors Heath Ledger (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain.' (Photo: Kimberly French/Courtesy Odeon Films).
Diane Wiffin, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said this weekend that the disciplinary action was due to the film's "graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes."
She denied that the action was because of the film's subject matter:
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