Stranger Inside

In this gritty drama, a woman discovers that her long-lost mother is now her partner in a cutthroat prison gang. Treasure (Yolonda Ross) is a young African-American woman who grew up without a mother and has been in trouble with the law most of her life after falling in with a rough-and-tumble ...more

Stranger Inside illustrates how difficult it is to apply conventional notions of justice, punishment, and rehabilitation to women who've spent so much of their lives in prison, or in similar conditions outside the prison walls, that they feel no connection to mainstream society. In order to make her film reasonably realistic, Dunye researched prison culture and spoke with inmates, social workers, and others to develop her script, then held workshops with inmates and staff at the Shakopee ...more