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If you are about to enter a USA prison, so this is your guide. In this documentary, a group of former inmates, officers and celebrities talks about the systems into the American prisons and how the prisoners should be treat. Also, they talk about hidden accidents that happened into American prisons.
19 June 1983, Seattle, Washington, USA
16 February 1958, Newark, New Jersey, USA
8 April 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 May 1944, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1970, Hollywood, California, USA
10 November 1970, Long Beach, California, USA
15 February 1976, Van Nuys, California, USA
5 August 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
1947, New Delhi, India
4 October 1957, Queens, New York, USA
20 May 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 August 1960, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA
14 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 July 1969, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
30 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
10 April 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 29, 2018
A film that, though it may be a bit too boisterous for its own good, is nonetheless one that everyone should see and talk about.
February 22, 2018
A valuable primer for those estimated 13 million Americans who are arrested every year.
February 22, 2018
Familiar but important points about our broken justice system, packaged for viewers who don't usually watch documentaries.
July 19, 2018
A feature-length indictment of an American legal system in which justice comes a distant last behind the interests of politicians, prosecutors, private-prison operators and the big-name companies that profit from the forced labour of a million prisoners.
February 21, 2018
Cooke crams in so much persuasively appalling information ... that it's easy to forgive him for seemingly trying to push all viewers' proverbial buttons at once.
February 24, 2018
Survivors Guide to Prison has changed the way I view the American justice system. There's not enough room in any review to account for all of it's essential information. It is a testament to how the 1% rule our world at the expense of everyone else.
February 22, 2018
As much an action plan for those outside prisons as it is a survival guide for those about to enter the darkness inside.
May 20, 2018
A sobering look at a life any of us, if enough things work against us, could find ourselves living, "Survivor's Guide to Prison" is a film that should not be missed.
August 28, 2018
Survivors Guide to Prison is a very uncomfortable viewing experience. It will make you angry and shock you. But with this sort of subject matter, maybe that is the appropriate effect.
February 20, 2018
Somewhat star struck and glib, but always useful and sobering in its advice, chilling and damning in the broken system it portrays.
February 23, 2018
Matthew Cooke's assaultive documentary hammers away at injustices in U.S. justice system.
February 04, 2019
this new documentary promises to be a kind of self-help manual for the criminal classes, but in fact offers a synoptic analysis of everything that is malfunctioning in America's machinery of criminal justice
