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13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. It explores the prison–industrial complex , and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States". [ 3 ]
Howard Barish is president and CEO of Kandoo Films, an Oscar nominated, Emmy award-winning entertainment company known for its producing partnership with Ava DuVernay. [1] [2] Barish and Kandoo's most recognized project to date, 13th, is a 2016 American documentary from Netflix directed by DuVernay.
Correctional populations in the U.S., 1980–2013 US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisons [1]. The prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, [2] used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and ...
A version of this story first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. Garrett Bradley’s “Time” (streaming on Amazon) is a moving chronicle of Fox Richardson, a New ...
Ava DuVernay's 2016 Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, about race and mass incarceration, includes video interviews with Browder. [40] In March 2017, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a six-part television documentary series produced by Jay Z and Harvey Weinstein, was broadcast on the Spike television network. [41] Jay Z said,
For the 21 years while Sibil “Fox” Richardson’s husband, Rob, was imprisoned, they were, she says, “a telephone, letter-writing, visitation, just-stay-alive and keep-your-head-above-water ...
A 2014 report by the National Research Council identified two main causes of the increase in the United States' incarceration rate over the previous 40 years: longer prison sentences and increases in the likelihood of imprisonment. The same report found that longer prison sentences were the main driver of increasing incarceration rates since 1990.
The documentary follows a group of young girls—Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana—and their incarcerated fathers as they prepare for a Daddy Daughter Dance, a program designed to bridge the ...