Synopsis
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.
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Cast
- Susan SarandonNarrator (voice)
- Danny TrejoSelf
- RZASelf
- Deepak ChopraSelf
- Patricia ArquetteSelf
- Jesse WilliamsSelf
- Danny GloverSelf
- Ice-TSelf
- Quincy JonesSelf
- Busta RhymesSelf
Recommendations
- 75
Movie Nation
It’s an alarming indictment of the way we’ve been taught to think, and where that warped thinking has put millions of our fellow citizens. - 70
Los Angeles Times
While a fair amount of its subject matter overlaps with Ava DuVernay's incendiary "13th," Matthew Cooke's "Survivors Guide to Prison" nevertheless serves as a valuable primer for those estimated 13 million Americans who are arrested every year. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Survivors Guide to Prison demonstrates just how seriously even a blameless citizen should take every interaction with the police. - 70
Village Voice
Thankfully, Cooke crams in so much persuasively appalling information — especially during a tangential aside on mentally ill patients’ high death rates — that it’s easy to forgive him for seemingly trying to push all viewers’ proverbial buttons at once. - 60
Variety
If ever a proselytizing documentary could be described as assaultive, Survivors Guide to Prison might sport that label as a badge of honor.
