Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
June 26, 2015 - Broken On All Sides
Program Synopsis: This film project began as a way to explore, educate about, and advocate change around the over-crowding of the Philadelphia county jail system. The documentary has come to focus on mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race and poverty within criminal justice.
* Statistics on Incarceration in the US and other countries:
a. How do we compare to other countries? - HERE! America has 5% of the world's
population, but 25% of the world's prison population.
Facts and figures on incarceration in America:
* America has 5 % of the world's population, but 25% of the world's prison population.
* In 1970, the US had 250,00 inmates, but today has 2,400,000. An increase of 800%.
* US spends $50 billion each year on incarceration.
* For every 2 white inmates, there are 11 black inmates.
* Prison sentences are nearly 20% longer for black inmates than whites with similar crimes.
* Nearly 6 million Americans can not vote due to a felony.
http://fffinfo.blogspot.com/p/june.html
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S. (Trailer)
vimeo.com/59940539
*************
This is where our focus should be. This film came out over 2 years ago. I see nothing has changed. Well, maybe one thing, now the cops are just shooting them in the back. Case solved.
