Official Selection FFTG Awards 2020 Laurel

12th Street

Drama
45 mins
United States
English

Synopsis

Each year 25,000 inmates are released in Huntsville, Texas — one of the largest prison towns in America. Monday through Friday, the glass doors swing open on the front of the Civil War-era, red-brick prison they call The Walls. The inmates exit and shuffle along the sidewalk, some smiling, some pensive, all shouldering onion sacks full of belongings. With no one to greet them, most of them stream past the private homes and prison offices toward the Greyhound bus station three blocks away. For hours, until buses have carried them off, there are lines of released prisoners everywhere near the station: a line for bus tickets, a line to cash prison checks, a line to buy new clothes.

Title: 

12th Street

Original Title: 

12th Street

Production Year: 

2020

Producer: 

Matthijs Heesemans

Writer: 

Gregory Lovett, Matthijs Heesemans

Music:

Raborn Johnson

Director's Interview

Festival: 

2020

Category: 

Documentary Films

Country: 

United States

Language: 

English

Director's Statement

This documentary features a number of these newly released prisoners and explores one of the most critical issues in the national debate over criminal justice reform: the flood of prisoners returning to American communities without the guidance and support needed for a successful transition back to society. What awaits them on the outside? How are they prepared to deal the new world? Where do they go from here?

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