27 minutes that'll make you furious about a system designed to break people.
follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of several individuals who fled their homelands in search of safety and freedom only to end up in U.S. prisons under a mandatory bed quota system run by Immigration Customs & Enforcement.
Direction
Barnhart packs years of injustice into 27 tight minutes.
Production
Rare access inside facilities most Americans never see.
Director
David Barnhart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The '34,000 bed quota' mentioned was a congressional mandate requiring ICE to fill detention beds daily—essentially legislating human suffering for profit.
Director David Barnhart specifically sought out volunteer visitors rather than lawyers or journalists, knowing they'd witnessed the most unguarded moments of detainee despair.
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