Agency - French program:.Ontario and West Studio.

Director, Marie Cadieux ; producer, Jacques Turgeon, Jacques Ménard ; research, Marie Cadieux ; script, Marie Cadieux ; director of photography, François Vincelette ; sound recordist, Esther Auger ; sound editor, Esther Auger ; editor, Louise Dugal ; music composer, Gaëtan Leboeuf ; mixer, Serge Boivin, Shelley Craig.

Participation, Diane Charron ; participation, Geneviève Ruest, Claudine Savoie, Dolorès Pichette, René Forgues, Louise Charrette, Jeannine Petit, Patzi Davidson, Lori McDonald, Kim Pate, Gilles Chamberland, Michel Darveau, Liliane Aflalo, Ginette Lafontaine, Linda Tassé, Marie-Claude Pouliot, Marie-Sylvie Turgeon, Diane Nadeau, Diane Beaudoin, Marilou Dufour, Marie-Andrée Cyrenne, Alexandre Nicole, Denis Garceau, Daniel Simard, Marc-André Surprenant, Georges Jaradeh, Amélie Cornellier, Yves Goulet, Maude Borris ; voice, Virginie Dulude Trudel ; narration, Susan Glover.

Recorded 2003.

Will Diane Charron ever be free? She began a life sentence behind bars in 1981 when she was entangled in a friend's act of revenge and ended up stabbing a stranger to death. She had just turned 19. We follow the story of Diane's life, from her own testimony and that of corrections officers, prison case-workers and psychiatrists. Many show remarkable sympathy and affection for a troubled woman whose early life was marked by abuse. Diane was placed in foster care with an abusive alcoholic when she was only 18 months old, a misery that ended only at age 13. Diane has been shuttled back and forth between various prisons and psychiatric hospitals -- a personal hell, yet she is hopeful about the future. Sentenced to Life asks serious questions about prisoners with mental health problems. Some subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).