tom was a good man. trying to change a broken system. it sort of energized us at frontline to on look deeply into the scenario and try to contribute to the debate. dan, i mean, your documentary has been called a must see for all its sort of horror, but i want to read you one criticism of it in the atlantic, and it is this. it says almost every single one of the faces that appear on film is white. perhaps that means that white viewers will more fully empathize with what they are seeing. i would love for the journalists who create solitary nation to undertake that same sort of project in a southern prison. what s your response to that? so would i. the reason there were so many white faces in this film is because it was shot in maine, and the great majority of inmates in the maine state prison are white. i would love to go back and make a similar film in a prison in a different state, and i have no doubt the racial makeup would be very different if we did. it was very difficult to g
the trouble is it s quite clear to me and it s quite clear actually to the warden of the prison that we were filming in that the very tactic used to separate these guys from other inmates, that very tactic actually long-term makes them more dangerous. 80%, 90% of these guys are getting out of prison at some point, and if their carrying has made them more dangerous, has made them more unstable, then ultimately we all lose. indeed. if there s any reason why people need to know this and understand it, that is a primary one. dan edge, writer and director and producer of the frontline documentary solitary nation. thank you very much for being here. you can check out the documentary tonight on pbs. thank you, sir. next, reading between the lines on the real ben carson. is he who republicans really want for president in 2016? [ male announcer ] some come here to build something smarter. some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster.