Cruel and Unusual
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2006, 66 minutes
Distributed by Outcast Films
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?
Shot over three years, this documentary 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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