The Prison in Twelve Landscapes backdrop
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes poster
Trailer
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
6.6
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1h 30m
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2016
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Released
Overview
More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.

Cast
Charisse Davidson poster
Charisse Davidson
Self
Lyndon B. Johnson poster
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)

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