The Farm: Angola USA is a documentary following six prisoners in the penitentiary in Angola, LA. It explores the human cost of our current system of mass incarceration and puts a human face on our current injustice system.This was a very gripping, very sad film. It was difficult to watch because my heart went out to these inmates. In spite of the fact that they had done horrible things (most were murderers), the waste of the decades they spent in prison really hit home. It was very emotional, and one criticism could be that it played on emotions in such a way that it obfuscated the more complicated issues that arise in sentencing and punishment.
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