Unit of Difficult Patients: What Future for the Criminally Insane?

Name: Unit of Difficult Patients: What Future for the Criminally Insane?
Director: Aymone de Chantéra
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Released: 2017-10-08
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 7.5

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★ 7.5

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With unique and exclusive testimonies from doctors, nurses, loved ones, and patients we go behind closed doors to examine a high security psychiatric facility that takes care of some of the most dangerous patients.

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