The fourth movement in which my group C.A.P.E (Citizens Advocating for Pre-trail Expansion) participated in so we can practice different types of movement activism and draw attention on what we are advocating for which is awareness to Pre-trial programs and bail bond fraud and unfairness to low-income citizens. Our group decided to participate in a more educational phase, which to show a documentary at Fresno State for students and faculty to watch. This film went in more in-depth with our social justice movement, the film was called "Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S". This film is a compelling documentary addressing racial inequalities within our criminal justice system and its devastating collateral consequences. At the end of this film it really did capture what our group wanted to get across and that was to educate and empower other groups and leaders from the community to start making changes in our prison system. When finishing watching this film I really felt like I got a sense of what the penal system really consisted of and felt educated and understanding. I have never really been inside the jail system so I was unaware and naïve if there was any racial inequality between races. Something I found very interesting about the film was how Michelle Alexander author of "The New Jim Crow" and Professor of Law at Mortiz College of Law, described mass incarceration as "The New Jim Crow". With the increase of the drug boom and jail's overcrowding we have created a new version of the Jim Crow. The problem is through subjective choices, people of color have been a target for law enforcement to target the minorities other than whites, specifically the black community. I enjoyed watching this film and hope that others as well felt that this should definitely be a topic of discussion for social and political topics to bring up.
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