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Anti-Drug War Film Wins Sundance Best Documentary

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Posted on Sun Jan 29, 2012 at 04:28:14 PM EST
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"The House I Live In", by Eugene Jarecki, a documentary film that rips our War on Drugs and policies of over-incarceration, won the Grand Jury Prize for best Documentary at Sundance. [More...]

Jarecki says, “We began a journey many many years ago when someone I love in the audience very much ... she inspired me to be very concerend about social justice” and it set me and my team on a journey to find out what’s happening to families like Manny’s ... “it’s a terrible, tragic little secret” we have in America, he says. The criminal justice system is “tragically immoral,” Jarecki says and we need reform - putting people in jail for nonviolent crime must end, he says. “I thank those men and women who shared their stories with us.”

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    "Tragically immoral".... (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Mon Jan 30, 2012 at 01:32:25 PM EST