Showrunner & Director

This eye-opening six-part Netflix series gives viewers powerful insight into mass incarceration by focusing on the criminal justice system’s “front door” — the county jail — and the profit-driven model that ensnares ordinary people over and over.

The series takes a strictly observational approach and narrows in on two key days in an inmate’s life: the first, when they desperately try to come up with money to buy their freedom, and the last, when they must start rebuilding the life that incarceration destroyed.