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Survivors Guide to Prison
A documentary movie starring former prisoners, officers and celebrities who show their opinions and critique about how the American prisons are run. Also, they present a series of instructions and tips for those who are about to enter an American prison.
14 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
20 May 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 February 1958, Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 October 1957, Queens, New York, USA
10 November 1970, Long Beach, California, USA
16 May 1944, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1970, Hollywood, California, USA
5 July 1969, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1947, New Delhi, India
1 August 1960, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA
5 August 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
10 April 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
8 April 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 February 1976, Van Nuys, California, USA
19 June 1983, Seattle, Washington, USA
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
May 20, 2018
A sobering look at a life any of us, if enough things work against us, could find ourselves living, "Survivor's Guide to Prison" is a film that should not be missed.
February 20, 2018
Somewhat star struck and glib, but always useful and sobering in its advice, chilling and damning in the broken system it portrays.
February 22, 2018
As much an action plan for those outside prisons as it is a survival guide for those about to enter the darkness inside.
November 29, 2018
A film that, though it may be a bit too boisterous for its own good, is nonetheless one that everyone should see and talk about.
February 24, 2018
Survivors Guide to Prison has changed the way I view the American justice system. There's not enough room in any review to account for all of it's essential information. It is a testament to how the 1% rule our world at the expense of everyone else.
February 22, 2018
Familiar but important points about our broken justice system, packaged for viewers who don't usually watch documentaries.
August 28, 2018
Survivors Guide to Prison is a very uncomfortable viewing experience. It will make you angry and shock you. But with this sort of subject matter, maybe that is the appropriate effect.
July 19, 2018
A feature-length indictment of an American legal system in which justice comes a distant last behind the interests of politicians, prosecutors, private-prison operators and the big-name companies that profit from the forced labour of a million prisoners.
February 21, 2018
Cooke crams in so much persuasively appalling information ... that it's easy to forgive him for seemingly trying to push all viewers' proverbial buttons at once.
February 04, 2019
this new documentary promises to be a kind of self-help manual for the criminal classes, but in fact offers a synoptic analysis of everything that is malfunctioning in America's machinery of criminal justice
February 22, 2018
A valuable primer for those estimated 13 million Americans who are arrested every year.
February 23, 2018
Matthew Cooke's assaultive documentary hammers away at injustices in U.S. justice system.
