The Americas, April 1st, 2007
Justice. Directed by Maria Augusta Ramos. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2004. 102 minutes. VHS. $440 purchase; $125 rental.
Near the beginning of the documentary Justice, the camera pans along the bars of an overcrowded prison cell in Brazil. Dozens of men crouch on bunk-beds or stand shoulder to shoulder, their voices barely audible above the whirr of a fan. Hands and feet jut out between the bars into the hallway; a young man looks straight into the camera: "For God's sake get me out of here."
Cells like these hold many of the young, poor men who are arrested in the streets of Rio ...
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