Farms: The Farm: Angola, USA ( 1998 )
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Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack co-directed this documentary, which explores life behind the bars of Louisiana's notorious maximum-security prison, Angola. Stationed on an old slave plantation, Angola is populated overwhelmingly by black inmates, and staffed by a white administration. The stories of various inmates convey the injustice and futility but also the hope that is part of prison life. A prisoner puts forth exonerating evidence to the parole board, and another speaks prior to execution.
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True rehabilitation can only be assessed by releasing people back into society but only if the society is willing to accept them back . Any person who is left unemployed and shunned by society will sooner or later re-offend ...possibly violently and the circle starts again. Punishment is of course needed ... but people must always live in hope.
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Hey, ZigZag, how's the food in that mental institution you're in?
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If we had more prisons and sentencing guidelines like they have in Louisiana, there would be less crime.