BROKEN ON ALL SIDES explores the intersection of race and poverty within the criminal justice system. Presenting a historical narrative not often heard about prisons and crime, this documentary investigates the complex issues of discretion within the system, racial targeting, and the largest spike in the number of people incarcerated in our nation's history.
"Those among us who might think the struggle for 'Civil Rights' is essentially a done deal face a rude awakening. Of several urgent moral mountains still to climb, U.S. criminal law & incarceration reform is a major one. Matt Pillischer's film Broken On All Sides joins Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Douglas Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name as poignant present-tense calls-to-arms. A
