Matthew Cooke's assaultive documentary hammers away at injustices in U.S. justice system. Full Review

Familiar but important points about our broken justice system, packaged for viewers who don't usually watch documentaries. Full Review

A feature-length indictment of an American legal system in which justice comes a distant last behind the interests of politicians, prosecutors, private-prison operators and the big-name companies that profit from the forced labour of a million prisoners. Full Review

A valuable primer for those estimated 13 million Americans who are arrested every year. Full Review

this new documentary promises to be a kind of self-help manual for the criminal classes, but in fact offers a synoptic analysis of everything that is malfunctioning in America's machinery of criminal justice Full Review

Survivors Guide to Prison has changed the way I view the American justice system. There's not enough room in any review to account for all of it's essential information. It is a testament to how the 1% rule our world at the expense of everyone else. Full Review

Rating: 5/5 -- A sobering look at a life any of us, if enough things work against us, could find ourselves living, "Survivor's Guide to Prison" is a film that should not be missed. Full Review