Release Date

17 Mar, 2016

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.

Original Title

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

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Actors

Charisse Davidson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Crew

Maya Bankovic

Olivier Alary

Brett Story

Brett Story

Avrïl Jacobson

Brett Story