How did it come to be that America's prison population is the largest in the civilized world, and what hope is there of changing the course of this troubling trend? The aptly titled new documentary The Biggest Prison System in History, produced as part of the provocative The Empire Files series, examines the origins of this epidemic and boldly points fingers at the institutions and power brokers who profit from the incarceration of more than two million American citizens.
"The U.S. has only five percent of the world's population," recites the film's correspondent Abby Martin, "yet a stunning twenty-five percent of its prisoners." With many of America's prisons stretched thin and struggling to operate far beyond capacity, the scourge of mass ...
Title: The Empire Files - Enter the biggest prison system in history
Published on Sep 18, 2015
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