Warschauer Notizen

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders.

The Girl Who Loved Animals follows Kitty Jones, a young woman from Seattle, WA, as she follows her convictions and fights for animal rights. Watch as Kitty shows how a teenager can make a difference to help stop animal cruelty.

Expendable exposes a western government's brutal actions against Schapelle Corby, including withholding evidence, deceiving the public, orchestrating a media campaign, and deploying state organs for political expediency.

Tim DeChristopher is Bidder 70, a young man who derailed an illegal BLM oil and gas auction in a courageous act of civil disobedience.

The project began as a way to explore, educate about, and advocate change around the overcrowding in the Philadelphia jail system. It has come to focus on mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race, poverty, and the criminal justice and penal systems. The documentary centers around Michelle Alexander's theory in her book, The New Jim Crow: since the rise of the drug war and explosion of prison populations, because discretion within the system allows for prosecution of people of color at disproportionately high rates, mass incarceration is a new version of Jim Crow. The movie also dissects the War on Drugs and 'tough on crime' movement, and offers possible reforms and solutions to ending mass incarceration and this new racial caste system.