I took a lot out of this documentary in terms of seeing things from a different perspective. It's Heart breaking and horrifying and I do agree that there should be other, more civilized means of rehabilitating people, I also have to point out that there really are EVIL people out there. I'm not referring to the guys who killed someone in a moment of rage, I'm referring to serial rapists, serial murderers, serial child predators. These people cannot simply walk the streets and they certainly don't deserve any "sugar coated rehabilitation". These people are rotten and deserve as much pain and suffering as they inflicted upon their victims. I do not believe prisons should be done away with altogether but merely reserved for the true evil members of society. The difficulty comes in in drawing the distinction though. It's a complicated and very distorted mess.

This is a leftist / progressive propaganda piece. The level of bias against law enforcement is ridiculous. There are definitely systemic issues within the criminal justice system, which must be addressed. However, torching the entire system out of spite, isn't a solution.

I am fascinated by prison, especially in the US so I watch a lot of the documentaries and shows. Most of the time they focus on a few inmates and show their lives for awhile. This was different it was really all about the system itself and how messed up it actually is. It really focused more on how easily innocent people can get washed away in a corrupt system that is designed to make corporations money and not about reform.

The style is a mix of interviews with actual people who were locked up and later found innocent of their crimes and narrated by a variety of celebrities (not just Danny Trejo) It is a fast paced expose into the reality of the justice system and the mentality of the US in general. There are some gorey scenes of blood, they show a couple scenes of people who have been stabbed but overall it's pretty mild. I would recommend this to everyone.