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Survivors Guide To Prison

Original title: Survivors Guide to Prison
  • 20182018
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 1h 42m
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Survivors Guide To Prison (2018)
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Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.
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    • Matthew Cooke
    • Matthew Cooke
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    • Patricia Arquette
    • Danny Trejo
    • Susan Sarandon
    • Matthew Cooke
    • Matthew Cooke
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    • Danny Trejo
    • Susan Sarandon
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    • 23User reviews
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    • 66Metascore
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    4/10
    An interesting but very obviously agenda driven film.
    I watched this movie expecting a gritty how-to for surviving in prison but the longer I watched the more it felt like an advertisement for a politician during reelection. Lots of percentages and statistics thrown at you with very little in regards to the sources of where they came from. It also felt very imbalanced in its portrayal of prison and prisoners, on one side talking about how terrible prisoners are but then talking the next about how they all shouldn't be there. They didn't seem to be very clear to what exactly they were trying to say. One woman in particular struck me as being in complete denial that murder is bad. I would have liked to see both sides of this issue not just the one that they seem to want to shove down your throat.
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      • February 23, 2018 (United States)
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