Hot Docs’ ‘The Strike,’ About the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in California, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

In “The Strike,” directors Joebill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment policies across the U.S. The doc tells the story of America’s supermax prison Pelican Bay, which opened in 1989 and was designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, the California prison held mostly Black and Brown […]