Storyville - Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Submitted on October 12,2015
Friday, November 20, 2015 TIMe: 7:00 PM
(USA, 2012, 68 min) directed by Matt Pillischer
Filmmaker in person
The movie explores mass incarceration across the U.S., using Philadelphia as an example. It examines Michelle Alexander’s theory in her groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow, that, through the rise of “tough on crime” policies, mass incarceration has created a new racial caste system, because discretion within the system allows for targeting people of color at disproportionately high rates