Holloway

In the broken husk of a building that once housed and detained women of all kinds, sit a group of those same women, who bring to light the realities of what brought them to Holloway, and what mark it left on their lives.

Once again, it reminds us that our carceral systems are not set up to uplift and save people - rather, they are there as monuments to our systemic failures - failiure to protect our young children, failiure to mitigate the effects of poverty on families, and failire to adequately address the mental health of all people. Also, a stark reminder that we jail protestors in this country with the same vim as violent offenders.

To sit and spend time with these women was at times very difficult and very informative - their stories need telling, and this documentary does a good job at doing so.