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A documentary screening at the Roxy Theater aims to help continue drawing attention to the issue of mass incarceration in the U.S., which has the most imprisoned citizens of any nation in the ...

The awards season is upon us and soon you'll hear all kinds of interviews and talk about films all in search of that elusive Oscar buzz. Well, one film is already generating that buzz and the topic ...

We look at a remarkable film that follows how acclaimed playwright Liza Jessie Peterson gave a mesmerizing performance of her one-person play “The Peculiar Patriot” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ...

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The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. There are currently two million people in prisons and jails in this country. Yet mass incarceration, for all the lives it touches, ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

MARYLAND HAS THE WORST RECORD IN THE COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO IMPRISONED AFRICAN AMERICANS. I SAY TO YOU TODAY THAT THE OVERINCARCERATION, THE MASS INCARCERATION OF BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN MARYLAND IS ...

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