Prison
In the searing new documentary The Sentence, we discover that the casualties of the “War on Drugs” extend beyond the millions of Americans harshly punished with prison time—their families suffer the brunt. Director Rudy Valdez, an American of Mexican descent, began filming his three nieces for his sister Cindy Shank because she was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. It was her first offense. She was labeled a conspirator.
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“Dogs on the Inside” is a documentary by filmmakers Brean Cunningham and Douglas Seirup about rescue dogs and the prisoners who train them. You’ll witness the rehabilitation of both — the incarcerated men and badly abused dogs.
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This is an update to my original article, “Oscar Pistorius, Ray Rice and the World Of Domestic Violence,” which was published on TheBlot Magazine LATEST NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for killing Reeva Steenkamp by a South African judge who cited the … Read more
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