Bedford Hills, that is...New York's maximum security prison. The half dozen women featured here have all done bad things when young and now they and their children pay the extremely lengthy price our society demands.
This nation's prison system has gotten way out of whack in recent decades...we incarcerate more people per capita than any other country...even the ones we label cruel or primitive. The American people are manipulated by misinformation which generates fear...and this fear leads them to abandon reason, fairness and common sense in favor of a lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key mentality.
We could do better...but we won't.
This film highlights some of the victims of this mindlessness...the children who are forced to grow up wondering why. Sad but well done.
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