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American Chain Gang documentary

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Original title: American Chain Gang
Year: 1999
Country: United States
Director: Xackery Irving
Screenwriter: Xackery Irving
Cast: Documentary
Producer: ChainGangPictures
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: After 30 Years, America is putting its prisoners back in chains. American Chain Gang, a feature length documentary, profiles the experiences of the prisoners and officers of the recently revived male chain gang and the world's first female chain gang.

This film examines the conditions of these people as they participate in these intense and highly controversial programs. American Chain Gang, investigates the impact of the controversial practice of chaining inmates during forced chained labor. Five prisoners and two officers are profiled before, during and after their release from the chain gang, thus documenting the true impact of the modern chain gang.

The documentary investigates this controversial prison policy through the words and actions of those who it most effects. By giving equal time to both prisoners and corrections officials, the film provides an objective perspective of these environments. However, by presenting the long term effects of this publicity-driven and punitive practice, it ultimately documents the consequent futility and hostility of this controversial prison policy.

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American Chain Gang

1999

Xackery Irving