More people are imprisoned in the United States at this present moment than in any other time or place in history, yet prisons themselves have never felt further away or more out of sight. "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes" is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. A meditation on the prison's "disappearance" in the era of mass incarceration, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of ordinary places across the United States where prisons affect lives.
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