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The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama.The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes.
These trends and injustices are part of how prison in America increasingly works. But “The Alabama Solution” lays bare the rotten guts of this system with enough sobering evidence, and enough ...
The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in the notorious and largest American maximum-security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Loosely based on articles published in Life Sentences , drawn from the prison magazine, The Angolite , the film was directed and produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus .
Wade and John devise a plan to reveal the truth about the violence in the prison, and possibly get him released. During the next yard time, Wade refuses to kill an inmate after defeating him in a fight. A furious Jackson enters the yard and prepares to attack him, but Smith kills him by severing his femoral artery and throat with a concealed ...
“Similar to George Floyd, Othel was crying out, screaming out, ‘I can’t breathe,’ while being witnessed by inmates and others at the facility.” Video shows man restrained, trying to ...
On December 9, 2024, Robert Brooks, a 43 year old black man, was transfered to Marcy Correctional Facility from Mohawk Correctional Facility and was repeatedly beaten by five officers in Marcy Correctional Facility in the town of Marcy, New York [1] [3] Starting in the Arsenal, continuing through the grounds to the infirmary then beaten inside the infirmary and died from his injuries the ...
A new drama tells the true story of inmate-turned-activist Kemba Smith, a Black woman who was a victim of the […] The post Watch: New film tells the story of criminal justice advocate Kemba ...
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [ 20 ] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.