This outstanding documentary is being shown across the nation in prisons, watched by guards and inmates. Including inmates, prison officials, and scholars of corrections, this documentary is riveting. It exposes what mandatory sentencing for drug use and sale, victimless crimes, has done to fill our prisons and promote expansion and privatization. It is an excellent companion piece to Michelle Alexander's outstanding book, The New Jim Crow. Its findings show the personal impact of the US having one of the largest prison populations in the world and paying $24,000 per inmate to incarcerate rather than funding programs, including job training, and policies including a higher minimum wage and changing sentencing so that victimless crimes do not net a felony conviction, that would help offenders function in the outside world. It is a must see!