I use this film in the critical thinking classes I teach at a local state university.

Powerfully accurate, but disturbing. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 3 days to finish once started.

That alone should open peoples eyes to bad laws that hurt more people than they help.

Now California voters appear poised to scale back the heavy reliance on incarceration they once embraced, with a measure that would transform several lower-level, nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors punishable by brief jail stays, if that, rather than time in a state penitentiary. Please spread the word in California – This Tuesday vote YES on Prop 47! For various reasons, the budget for anti-drug TV propaganda has (thankfully) been in steady decline since the 80′s. The inspiring Professor Charles Ogletree writes: &... RT @DCTVny: Director @EugeneJarecki of @Peabody_Aw... Glenn Martin writes about the casualties of the dr... Sir Richard Branson urges you to support the Smart... RT @Peabody_Awards: . What perpetuates it? Our friend Morgan Pehme writes an opinion piece on Gov. President Obama, a fan of the much-more-popular-after-it-ended HBO show The Wire, said he sees it playing a role in changing criminal justice policy in the U.S. “The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world” – Kofi Annan. Saw this documentary last night and can not begin ... “Politicians, police officials and community... Why are some drugs legal and some prohibited? We mostly post positive news here– because we are winning the struggle against the drug war, and every day seems to bring more evidence of our imminent victory. Thanks in advance! It was magnificent!

The University of Sydney is h... RT @bedrella: Jarecki, masterclass in corso @Milan... Philadelphia will soon become the largest city in ... “Nixon declared all-out war on drugs, which is r... RT @_gabrielsayegh: Bowden was featured in the doc... RIP to the great journalist Charles Bowden. Fear of criminal prose... RT @DrugPolicyNews: Flag on the Play: Why the #Sto... RT @davidjb1988: Re-watching The House I Live In. Hypocrisy About Drugs http://t.co/bOYnxUA4jD. ... President Obama on marijuana: “My concern is... RT @tkriii: Panel discussion @TheWrightMuseum afte... We need to build momentum for this bill– Tel... More good news today– The Obama Administrati... BIG NEWS!! Watch the Video: http://t.co/Yey39wVekQ Tell Congress to ACT: http://t.co/KRQCbrqAMj …, The inspiring Professor Charles Ogletree writes: “the beginning of the end of a generation of mass incarceration may have arrived.” Read the article, watch our video, and tell Congress to support the Smarter Sentencing act now: http://www.thehouseilivein.org/advocate/, RT @DCTVny: Director @EugeneJarecki of @Peabody_Awards-winning @DrugWarMovie writes “Just Say No…to the War on Drugs” http://t.co/U8Cn711…, Glenn Martin writes about the casualties of the drug war and the need for mass-decarceration. It gave me a whole new and frankly frightening perspective on our “justice” system. The world’s biggest drug kingpin, ‘El ... RT @OSCboston: The House I Live In (@DrugWarMovie)... Police are addicts too in the war on drugs– ... “Gov. President Obama on Thursday said America’s decades-long war on drugs has been “unproductive” and that sending low-level narcotics offenders to prison tears apart families and leads to even more crime. Watch Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann’s TED Talk! Watch it in US and Canada: http://dogwoof.org/1qUIloW, RT @TabooBreakers: ‘Let’s not forget the casualties of the US war on drugs’ http://t.co/gbekVn8b30. Two bipartisan bills now under consideration aim to unwind our decades-long mass incarceration binge and to keep it from happening again. Let’s help them complete their Kick-starter goal! Bill sponsors say that the bill’s passage means there are now five million New Yorkers with prior convictions who will have a better shot at meaningful employment. Watch the premiere of Evolution of a Criminal Film on Independent Lens | PBS tonight at 10PM. President Obama speaks on mandatory minimums, voter discrimination, and mass incarceration! Best video ever on why we need to end the War on Drugs: http://t.co/NNEsnCr9w7 #SmarterSentencing.

When this info. Democracy Now! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2017. This week will see much discussion on Capitol Hill about the drug war. Congratulations to all of you who took part and sent letters to the Sentencing Commission. TRNN’s The Real Baltimore series provides the crucially needed context for the current protests. People across the state are suffering, and over 80% of New Yorkers support allowing access to medical marijuana to provide relief. about New York’s opportunity to legalize medical marijuana. If I get out on parole and mess up again, I won’t be able to be there for him.”, “It is time to end the ‘war on drugs’ and massively redirect resources towards effective evidence-based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis. That’s not something that we can sustain. The University of Sydney is hosting a career retrospective on director Eugene Jarecki featuring screnings of all of his films: Reagan, The House I Live In, The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight – Sept 21 through Oct 1, RT @bedrella: Jarecki, masterclass in corso @MilanoFilmFest , storytelling su media, guerra e democrazia http://t.co/VRnOSqJ9DP, Philadelphia will soon become the largest city in America to decriminalize marijuana. Particularly alongside Johann Hari's book Chasing The Scream, this is a really compelling account of how what started as a weapon to attack immigrant populations - Chinese, Afro-Caribbean and Mexican - has now become a more generalised attack on the economically irrelevant poor of America and turned them into a highly profitable industry of incarceration and punishment.

Voting ends today! They are urging the state to pass the Fairness and Equity Act and the Marijuana Regulation and Tax Act (MRTA) as part of their state budget and legislative agenda for 2015-2016. Check out the film and brand new curriculum! The Criminal Justice System in America is broken beyond repair it is in need of an immediate overhaul that is what this documentary so clearly points out, you have a judge who is frustrated and burned out from the lengthy mandatory sentences for crack as compared to the short time given for cocaine, there are the police who are arresting non-violent drug users, and then there are the politicians republican and democrat whose tough on drug-crime rhetoric is code language for arrest more poor black people, the vast majority of whom are saddled with an overworked under-paid court appointed lawyer.

NYC Mayor de Blasio has filed the paperwork to end the appeal on a judge’s ruling to reform the NYPD’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices. Why? The war on drugs is not about drugs at all . Tomorrow, Washington D.C. lawmakers will vote on t... RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman. This screening is free and open to the public, tell your Texan friends! Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the impact of mass incarceration on the black family in his next Atlantic cover story. Join millions who agree the Drug War has failed: http://t.co/GorbeBP4U9 RT for #SmarterSentencing, RT @UKLEAP: Just say NO to the war of drugs – says @richardbranson http://t.co/5ETzPj2LNg, RT @REACTtoFILM: “Is drug abuse a victimless crime? And Mayor de Blasio described an environment so toxic that inmates are released “more broken than when they came in.”, Join the Peace and Justice Center for a special screening of The House I Live In tomorrow at the Landing Film House: https://www.facebook.com/events/1709315932647627/. Join us for a teleconference with director Eugene Jarecki and Asha Bandele of Drug Policy Alliance at 1pm EST.