My reaction to Matthew Cooke’s “Survivors Guide to Prison” documentary
Problematic Procedural Issues in the Documentary Movie Matthew Cooke’s Survivors Guide to Prison captures and abstracts America’s criminal justice system in a way that sheds light when it comes to the twisted manner in which there are significant procedural and policy issues which beat the normal logic. While an analytical examination of the film would reveal several tricky issues, three problematic procedural issues stand out in the film. The first notable problematic procedural issue is that of interrogation. It is unquestionably true that interrogation is helpful in obtaining useful information among suspects to enhance the quality of a prosecutor’s arguments in a criminal justice case (Hunter & Wagner, 2007 p.89). However, Survivors Guide to Prison plainly depicts the scale to which the interrogations carried out in the US court system are defective. Interrogators are driven by the bias and do not necessarily integrate the rights of supposed criminals to speak to lawyers