Imagine spending 23 hours a day in an 8’ x 10’
cell, completely alone and deprived of all human
or outside contact. It’s a torturous reality
experienced by more than 100,000 American
prisoners every single day—often with devastating
psychological consequences. To create this
essential, provocative documentary, Kristi
Jacobson spent over a year capturing the profoundly
moving stories of those on both sides
of the bars in Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison,
one of America’s toughest supermax prisons.
Delivering a staggering account of the mental
anguish—and often violent effects—wreaked
by solitary confinement, not just on prisoners
but on guards as well, this gripping documentary
is mandatory viewing that will challenge your
thinking and prompt much-needed discussion
about punishment today in America.
In
Person: Director Kristi Jacobson.