Women, transgender women such as Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia, are incarcerated in men's prisons across the U.S. from Wyoming to New Jersey and Florida. Denied medical and psychological treatment, victims of rape and violence, the documentary Cruel and Unusual asks if the punishment for their crime is indeed cruel and unusual?
Cruel and Unusual (2006, 66 minutes) is an unflinching documentary on the lives of transgender women in men's prisons. Shot over three years, this high-definition documentary film challenges the viewer's basic ideas about gender and justice through braids of poignantly graphic stories, vibrant landscape portraits and stark prison footage.
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Outcast Films is a film distribution company dedicated to the fair and equal representation of media made by or about the diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender community. We are also educators and activists and want to be a vehicle for voices that may not otherwise be heard.
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If you are interested in becoming involved in a local Prison Pen Pal Program, BlackandPink is a local grassroot queer organizing project that works to provide support to queer and trans folks in prison who are in search of others to write them. There is no mention of what they were convicted of because the prison industrial complex is set up to imprison all sorts of people regardless of what they possibly could have done on the outside. This is a great opportunity for you to get to know someone and provide support to some one in great need of friendship and attention.
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