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13th

Greenlit By: Jamie

November 2, 2016

Episode

Jamie Says

The prison system hides the secrets of America's worst crimes as a country.

Synopsis

13th is a 2016 American documentary film by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;”[3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.