Using the city as their classroom, they trained with photographers, videographers and journalists and met with academics, lawyers, and activists. They also met with over 40 formerly incarcerated people to hear and record their stories and to take their portraits.

At its core, “Broken?” asks us consider four questions: How did the land of the free become the world’s biggest jailer? Is the US criminal justice system broken or is it doing exactly what it was designed to do? Can a system that was designed by men who did not believe that everyone was equal, be just? And if not, how do we change it?