Trailer | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Preview: Season 18 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In the era of mass incarceration, the film examines looks at how prisons affect citizens.
A cinematic journey through a series of seemingly ordinary American landscapes, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes excavates the hidden world of the modern prison system and explores lives outside the gates affected by prisons.
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Trailer | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Preview: Season 18 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A cinematic journey through a series of seemingly ordinary American landscapes, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes excavates the hidden world of the modern prison system and explores lives outside the gates affected by prisons.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- If you don't have no money, they fittin' to lock you up.
- This cell had feces on the wall, blood on the wall.
- [Narrator] What should be the face of justice is now one of America's fastest growing industries.
- The prison out there employs 400 people.
It's recession proof.
- [Man] We service 62 prisons in New York state alone.
- All this is about, at the end of the day, no matter how we see it, money.
- [Narrator] The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, part of Independent Lens on PBS.
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