![]() The film’s greater revelation is that in recent history, the government has actively pinned criminality onto the disenfranchised. We see that the American justice system is plainly rigged against the poor. Taking as its point of departure the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which outlaws “slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime,” the film demonstrates how that exception has allowed for the systematic mass incarceration of black bodies on tenuous grounds, and for durations of time that far exceed the severity of their offences.
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