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Survivors Guide to Prison
The movie revolves around the prisons in USA and what's happening inside them, some we find out about and more we never know. In this documentary, that incorporates a gathering of previous detainees, officers and famous people, we see their evaluate about the frameworks in the American penitentiaries.














30 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA


9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA

16 May 1944, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

1 August 1960, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA

2 June 1970, Hollywood, California, USA


20 May 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA

19 June 1983, Seattle, Washington, USA

14 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA

4 October 1957, Queens, New York, USA



February 20, 2018
Somewhat star struck and glib, but always useful and sobering in its advice, chilling and damning in the broken system it portrays.
February 04, 2019
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
February 22, 2018
Familiar but important points about our broken justice system, packaged for viewers who don't usually watch documentaries.
February 22, 2018
As much an action plan for those outside prisons as it is a survival guide for those about to enter the darkness inside.
May 20, 2018
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.
August 28, 2018
Survivors Guide to Prison is a very uncomfortable viewing experience. It will make you angry and shock you. But with this sort of subject matter, maybe that is the appropriate effect.
February 23, 2018
Matthew Cooke's assaultive documentary hammers away at injustices in U.S. justice system.
February 24, 2018
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.
February 22, 2018
A valuable primer for those estimated 13 million Americans who are arrested every year.
February 21, 2018
Cooke crams in so much persuasively appalling information ... that it's easy to forgive him for seemingly trying to push all viewers' proverbial buttons at once.
July 19, 2018
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.
November 29, 2018
A film that, though it may be a bit too boisterous for its own good, is nonetheless one that everyone should see and talk about.