One of the more memorable " films " I've see. Thug gets hold of a camera snuck in by a thug guard and films an expose of the dark side of prison life. It takes some doing for the prison system to take second place to anything but Omar manages to convince the viewer that he's where he belongs. Omar's mom does a lot of talking to the viewer while letting us know all of her chilun' are or have been in the joint and her business of selling the DVD is done out of the trunk of her ( stolen ? ) car . The market will bear five bucks a pop. This abomination had a showing at the Tribecca film festival , maybe a Liberal low point.. Devolution USA

I'd say this movie is an average film with an above average purpose. We expect people to be treated with some degree of their human rights whether they are in prison or walking down the street. No matter what your circumstances are you have rights as a person. Im very surprised that this hasn't been made an issue in New Jersey. It's obvious that there were wrong doings because Omar was offered time off his sentence to "rat" on his conspirators, which a warden can't legally do because its up to the judge among others. Id say watch it if you into documentaries or injustices to rally behind. I would also like to know what has happened since the filming of the movie. It would be nice to know why Omar was moved to Maryland state prison and Buddy was not.

I really wanted to like this film, I'm all about righting injustice. But this is just some inmates with a camera trying to blackmail the system by documenting "abuses" on film. Guess what? It's PRISON! It's OZ! You get there by doing something so bad that a dozen random people agreed you need to be locked up*. Of course there's going to be abuses, of course there's corruption, it's PRISON. I didn't see anything there that moved me to feel there's earth shaking injustice to reveal, it's PRISON, not daycare. Skip this one and shame on you HBO for putting on this crap. If this was a nursing home it would be a compelling documentary but it just feels like a day of lockup to me. *I'm sure there are exceptions, but I think in most maximum security facilities if you are there, you did something very wrong.

Funny I would bring up Glenn Beck in this situation right? Wrong. This uh... homemade movie is one-sided and that side is given no real evidence or balance.An inmate at a prison managed to get a camcorder into his cell and the intriguing part of this documentary stops there. He claims to show evidence of correctional officer violence, but it's really just hyped up prisoner antics.The only informative aspect of this homemade movie is the cramped and horrifying living spaces you can look forward to if you rob someone with a sawed off shotgun; as the main subject, Omar Broadway did.