openDemocracy & The Tedworth Charitable Trust...in association with Exile Nation Media...presents

The Exile Nation Project

An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System

A film by Charles Shaw
The Land of the Free punishes or imprisons more of its citizens than any other country. This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America's criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of "out of sight, out of mind."