Eugene Jarecki's documentary at the Sundance Film Festival looks at the cost of America's war on drugs - its social and human as well as financial cost. With "The House I Live In," the filmmaker takes a close-up look at the results of U.S. drug policy. Jarecki said he...
Eugene Jarecki's documentary at the Sundance Film Festival looks at the cost of America's war on drugs - its social and human as well as financial cost.
With "The House I Live In," the filmmaker takes a close-up look at the results of U.S. drug policy.
Jarecki said he was moved to explore the issue because, while his parents escaped persecution in Nazi Germany, he sees another kind of Holocaust taking place in poor communities hit by harsh drug laws and mandatory minimum sentences.
The film includes interviews with inmates, dealers, narcotics officers, judges, professors and historians.