A Deal With the Devil
A video from The Bail Trap: American Ransom series from Brave New Films. Delves into the problems with plea deals from a... Read More
A Father-Daughter Dance … in Prison
A TED talk, featuring Angela Patton, who discusses the idea that just because fathers are in prison they can still be part... Read More
A New Story of Justice: Nonviolence and Restorative Justice
A resource from the The Metta Center For Nonviolence. This short animation highlights the differences between restorative justice and our current system... Read More
Breaking Down Bail
The first of the series, The Bail Trap: American Ransom from Brave New Films. Explains the basics and common misconceptions about bail.... Read More
College Behind Bars
A 4-part series from PBS that explores the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women... Read More
End Mass Incarceration – Our Turn to Dream
Brave New Films. Mass incarceration, an oppressive system which has devastated communities of color across America has become the new “Jim Crow”.... Read More
Half of the Inmates Shouldn’t be Here, Says Cook County Sheriff
A CBS 60 Minutes segment about Cook County Jail, one of the largest in the U.S., where Sheriff Tom Dart sees his... Read More
How “Second Chance” Laws Could Transform the U.S. Justice System
A TED Talk, featuring Sheena Meade who makes the case for “clean slate” laws that streamline the complicated process for the 30... Read More
How Jails Extort the Poor
A TED Talk featuring Salil Dudani, who shares stories from individuals who have experienced debtors’ prison in Ferguson, Missouri, challenging us to... Read More
How Restorative Justice Could End Mass Incarceration
A TED Talk featuring Dr. Shannon Sliva, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She... Read More
How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and Others for Prison
A TED Talk featuring sociologist Alice Goffman who spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of... Read More
Justice in Crisis: Mass Incarceration in America
A series from Brave New Films, that explores some of the problems with the criminal justice system in the U.S. Titles include: Prison... Read More
Last Days of Solitary
An intense and sometimes graphic PBS Frontline documentary that goes inside Maine’s attempt to decrease its use of solitary — and what happens... Read More
Mercy, Justice & Forgiveness
TED Talk featuring Jeanne Bishop sharing the story of her sister who at age 25 along with her husband and their unborn... Read More
Milwaukee 53206
A documentary that tells the story of those affected by mass incarceration in America’s most incarcerated ZIP code. Following the journeys of... Read More
Philly D.A.
An 8-part documentary from PBS that looks at the first term of Philadelphia’s unapologetic District Attorney, Larry Krasner. The series explores some... Read More
Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem
A resource from Brave New Films, that exposes how the U.S. history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal... Read More
Rikers: An American Jail
A documentary from Bill Moyers, brings viewers face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Their... Read More
Second Chance Citizens
Produced by Brave New Films. A success story of a man who re-enters society and supports his family due to an employer... Read More
Shakespeare Behind Bars
A documentary telling the story of convicted felons practicing for over a year to perform Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest and how... Read More
Slavery By Another Name
This PBS documentary challenges the country’s assumption that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and recounts how in the... Read More
The Bail Trap: American Ransom
A resource series from Brave New Films, consisting of: Breaking Down Bail — looks at the myths surrounding bail Tai’s Story: College... Read More
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
A short animated video from The Atlantic, that looks at the enduring view of African Americans in this country as a race... Read More
The Future of Race in America
A TED talk featuring Michelle Alexander, addressing the issue of mass incarceration of minorities — particularly African Americans in the US. —... Read More
The House I Live In
Provides stories from individuals at all levels of America’s “War on Drugs,” and offers a look inside of America’s longest war and... Read More
The Human Stories Behind Mass Incarceration
A TED Talk featuring Eve Abrams, who uses audio from interviews with incarcerated people and their families, to share stories of those... Read More
The Innocence Files
A 9-part documentary series from Netflix that looks at the work of the Innocence Project and the uphill battle their clients face... Read More
The Matthew 25 Pledge
A short video from Sojourners, that paraphrases the words of Jesus and applies them to current events. Watch now.
The Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Prison Industry — and How to Dismantle It
A TED Talk featuring criminal justice advocate and TED Fellow Bianca Ty, who discusses the predatory nature of the billion-dollar prison telecom... Read More
The Problem with the U.S. Bail System
A short animated TED Talk featuring Camilo Ramirez who shows how the cash bail system in this country disproportionally hurts people in... Read More
This is Crazy – Criminalizing Mental Health
Produced by Brave New Films. Focuses on the problems with criminalizing mental health told through first-hand accounts. Click here for more information.
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
TED Talk by Bryan Stevenson. Shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a... Read More
What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like
A TED Talk, featuring Deanna Van Buren, who designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system... Read More
What if We Ended the Injustice of Bail?
A TED Talk by Robin Steinberg, who points out that on any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States... Read More