![]() The United States holds 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its prisoners.ġ3th (titled after the 13th amendment) seeks to answer the question: Why?ĭuVernay picks up the story after the Civil War, making a case that targeted incarceration of blacks began as a means to rebuild the Southern economy. "Neither slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." 13th Amendment to the US Constitutionġ3th, a documentary by Ava DuVernay (director of SELMA), begins with a stark statistic.
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