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Yale Visual Law Project The Yale Visual Law Project produces documentary films on legal issues to advance public debate. Join a rising community bringing together law and film!

A student-led program at Yale Law School, we train students in the art of visual advocacy.

"The impact of America’s punishment policies is often measured in numbers: there are now 2.2 million people in our jails...
10/27/2017

"The impact of America’s punishment policies is often measured in numbers: there are now 2.2 million people in our jails and prisons; one in a hundred and fifteen adults is confined behind bars; our inmate population is four times larger than it was in 1980. “We Are Witnesses,” a collection of short videos, offers a very different sort of calculation: the human cost of locking up so many citizens for so many years. The project comprises nineteen videos, each between two and six minutes long. Taken together, they present a rare 360-degree portrait of the state of crime and punishment in the United States."

“We Are Witnesses”: A Portrait of Crime and Punishment in America

"For the state to take a child, and throw him into an adult prison, where unless he becomes scarily violent he will be m...
10/13/2017

"For the state to take a child, and throw him into an adult prison, where unless he becomes scarily violent he will be mercilessly r***d, is to do everything possible to create a monster."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/the-autobiography-of-robert-pruett

Summary of Offense: On December 17, 1999, Pruett physically assaulted a male correctional officer, Daniel Nagle, at the McConnell Unit in Bee County, resulti...

"Why are people so obsessed with these photos? A Rutgers sociologist, Sarah Esther Lageson, who has been studying the ex...
06/03/2017

"Why are people so obsessed with these photos? A Rutgers sociologist, Sarah Esther Lageson, who has been studying the explosion of digital mug shots for nearly a decade, said they offer a view not just into the darker recesses of someone’s life but also into an essential government process that many of us never see or experience."

Why should we get to see Tiger Woods after he is arrested?

The Americas Society/Council of the Americas reviewed "The Worst of the Worst" in their Winter 2014 edition of Americas ...
02/11/2014

The Americas Society/Council of the Americas reviewed "The Worst of the Worst" in their Winter 2014 edition of Americas Quarterly

A snippet: "Ultimately, The Worst of the Worst aims to inspire prison reform and challenge the notion that supermax facilities house the worst of the worst."

Check it out: http://yalevisuallawproject.org/2014/02/11/americas-quarterly-reviews-the-worst-of-the-worst/

Read the Full Piece Here Worst of the Worst The U.S. holds the sad distinction of putting more people behind bars than any other country in

Visual Law's Aseem Mehta talked about "The Worst of the Worst" and the need for an active discussion on solitary confine...
10/28/2013

Visual Law's Aseem Mehta talked about "The Worst of the Worst" and the need for an active discussion on solitary confinement in prisons on WNPR this morning.

Listen to the full interview and learn more about the film and the advocacy efforts: http://wnpr.org/post/film-sheds-light-hidden-world-supermax-prisons

Yale Law School’s Visual Law Project has created a film about Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, Connecticut. The documentary film sheds light on

SF friends! Sharat Raju and Valarie Kaur are on their way to Stanford to screen our latest film THE WORST OF THE WORST o...
10/15/2013

SF friends! Sharat Raju and Valarie Kaur are on their way to Stanford to screen our latest film THE WORST OF THE WORST on solitary confinement in US prisons. The film has helped lead to major changes in Connecticut, so we're excited to take it on the road to share the story with you this Wednesday and Saturday. Hope to see you there -- details below!

October 16, 2013 – Screening of “The Worst of the Worst”
12:45pm - 2:00pm, Stanford Law School, Room 180
559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA

October 19, 2013 – UNAFF 2013: Individual to Universal
3:20 pm, Aquarius Theatre
430 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA
“The Worst of the Worst” will be screened at Session 7 of the film festival. Free admission for students. Click here to purchase tickets: http://www.unaff.org/2013/tickets.html

Watch the trailer:
http://yalevisuallawproject.org/film/the-worst-of-the-worst

Our feature on MSNBC:
http://valariekaur.com/2012/12/prisons

A Yale Visual Law Project Film. Now Playing. Music: RJD2, "Smoke and Mirrors"

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