Broken on all sides
Broken On All Sides In the film Broken On All Sides, we had the chance to explore about the incarceration in Philadelphia`s jail system and problems brought by overcrowding, racial issues and poverty within the system. The reason behind the project was to educate people about the incarceration in jails and address problems of prison population to society. The film talks about the racial inequality within our criminal justice system. I personally think that the film definitely made me think again about the incarceration and criminal justice system because what we saw in the film was not something that everyone across the country knows about. I think it was a good film to educate community and point out about this critical issue. The United States has the highest crime rate and incarceration rate in the world. It sounds frightening but it is the truth. In my opinion the biggest reasons for this mass incarceration were these two factors; being “tough on crime” and the drug war. Intersection of race and poverty within the system became tough on African Americans because they are making up the big portion of the prison population. It could be some kind of movement towards Black community if you consider the numbers but again it is devastating. As a result, the film was successful on addressing incarceration problems but in reality I don’t think that it`s going to change anything because African Americans still facing with difficulties even if they are out in the society and that’s one of the biggest problems of our country.