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There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the Pope. Situated in rural Virginia, 300 miles from any urban center, Red Onion State Prison is one of over 40 supermax prisons across the US built to hold prisoners in eight-by-ten-foot cells for 23 hours a day. Filmed over the course of one year, this eye-opening film braids stark prison imagery, stories from correction officers, and intimate reflections from the men who are locked up in isolation. The inmates share the paths that led them to prison and their daily struggles to maintain their sanity.

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Release : 2016
Rating : 7.2
Studio : HBO Documentary Films, 
Crew : Director, 
Cast :
Genre : Crime Documentary

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Reviews

Raetsonwe
2018/08/30

Redundant and unnecessary.

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NekoHomey
2018/08/30

Purely Joyful Movie!

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InformationRap
2018/08/30

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Kien Navarro
2018/08/30

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Danny Blankenship
2017/02/08

Many people have a different take on what we should do with our offenders in the nation's prison system should we put them away or treat them. True therapy and corrective behavior may work for some, yet many bad boys are beyond and past help and isolation and putting many in the hole(or what is called segregation in the prison world)for punishment is the only way to go. And this HBO documentary from Kristi Jacobson shed's light on the pros and cons as she put the camera for an all access tour on maybe the toughest super max that being Red Onion State Prison in the rural mountains of the coal depressed region of southwest Virginia. As you get interviews from the inmates of the hard life of being locked in 23 hours a day only getting outside recreation in a cage, and how many say they feel sorrow for their crimes and miss the outside world of life and family and the little things like food, showers, commissary, and mail and phone calls and TV are a life line for them. And the Red Onion step down program may be a hope out for some yet many end right back up in segregation as these guys were doomed for life. Still these offenders did very very bad things the toughest of toughest offenders by committing murders and even slicing the throat of a warden and many have assaulted corrections staff and misbehaved to land at Red Onion. Thru this process many break away from the norm and develop mental health problems while being at Red Onion still many play it like a card game as these con men know how to manipulate.Also interviewed are staff like unit managers and even the warden proving that they will handle their business if offenders get out of line and listening to the corrections officer's does shed insight that it's a dangerous job and very stressful that one's life is always at risk. Overall this film is compelling, interesting, showing another side of life that many don't see or don't want to see as it shows a harsh and manipulative segment of society are clearly locked away and stripped down from the outside world.

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five-36385
2016/06/06

This film is a groundbreaking experience of human isolation at red onion correctional facility, with unprecedented access this film team has compiled a portal into a world often unknown and unseen. this film humanizes those who work under these conditions as well as those who have to live under these conditions and will change the hearts and minds of Americans far and wide to further prove that solitary confinement is torture. HBO presents solitary a film guided and supported by those directly impacted by isolation and who are on the front-line of the advocacy work top end state funded programs that is damaging the health of millions of American tax payers. Juan Mendez the united nations expert on torture has stated the 14 days or more in isolation is cruel and unusual punishment, experience why this is so.take a view into a world that is dominated by millions of Americans charged with the over site and facilitation of confinement of millions of other Americans, why is this? why do we choose to cage our citizens instead of treating them.this and many other answers are revealed in this groundbreaking journey

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