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

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

7.5IMDb Score
Released:2017-10-08
Duration:88 min
Country:France
Director:Aymone de Chantéra
Actors:
Production:MagellanTV, GIRAF PROD

Overview:

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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