Broken on all sides : race, mass incarceration & new visions for criminal justice in the U.S. : a documentary

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Broken on all sides : race, mass incarceration & new visions for criminal justice in the U.S. : a documentary

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race, mass incarceration & new visions for criminal justice in the U.S. : a documentary

Statement of responsibility

by Matthew Pillischer ; produced, directed and edited by Matthew Pillischer

Contributor

• Pillischer, Matthew
• Jefferson, Leonard C
• Alexander, Michelle

Director

• Pillischer, Matthew

Producer

• Pillischer, Matthew

Subject

• African American men -- Social conditions
• African American prisoners
• African American prisoners -- United States
• Alexander, Michelle
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Nonfiction films
• Prison films
• Race discrimination -- United States
• United States -- Race relations

Genre

• Nonfiction films
• Prison films
• Documentary films
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

"More African Americans are under 'correctional' (prison) control today than were enslaved in 1850. Why? The movie explores mass incarceration across the U.S. and the intersection of race, poverty, and the criminal justice and penal systems. It centers around Michelle Alexander's theory in her groundbreaking book, 'The New Jim Crow:' through the rise of the drug war and tough on crime policies, because discretion within the system allows for targeting people of color at disproportionately high rates, mass incarceration is the new caste system in America. The movie dissects the War on Drugs and 'tough on crime' movement, illustrates how the emerging Occupy movement offers hope for change, and explores possible reforms and solutions to ending mass incarceration and this new racial caste system. "--Container

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CaOTUAV

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Videography, Matthew Pillischer ; music, Jesse Olson Bay ... [et al.]

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LC call number

HV9471

LC item number

.B765 2012

PerformerNote

Interviews: Khalid Abdul Rasheed, Theresa Shoatz, Michelle Alexander, Jonathan Feinberg, John Goldkamp, Nathaniel Gravely Hayes, Angus Love, Marlene Martin, Tom Namako, John Street, Judge Shelia Woods-Skipper, Su Ming Yeh, Carlton Young

Runtime

68

Technique

live action