segues to where we are at this moment in america, it s about this human rights disaster in many ways that is just off the tip of queens in new york city. why did you want to be part of this film? i wanted to put a human face on the statistics and stories in the print press that were coming out about the culture of cruelty there. this was 15 to 16 months ago. and to raise the question, is this how, no matter what the offense is, we want to treat people? what does it say, all of the stories that have been told, powerful investigative reporting, what does it say about our society as a civilization and as a democracy and i don t appear in the film. we interviewed these men and women at length and they tell their story in their own voices. it s a place of great cruelty institutionally.
on the statistics and stories in the print press that were coming out about the culture of cruelty there. this was 15 to 16 months ago. and to raise the question, is this how, no matter what the offense is, we want to treat people? what does it say, all of the stories that have been told, powerful investigative reporting, what does it say about our society as a civilization and as a democracy and i don t appear in the film. we interviewed these men and women at length and they tell their story in their own voices. it s a place of great cruelty institutionally. i watched it after the election and we re talking about blue america, red america, racism and this is in new york city. this institution is created by the mechanisms of the state of one of the most, quote, liberal places in the whole country. right here in two miles