Crime After Crime

Crime After Crime (2011)

Horribly abused… Wrongfully imprisoned… One signature away from freedom.

The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman, despite the injustices she has experienced, first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution, and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when a pair of rookie land-use attorneys cut their teeth on her case -- and attract global attention to the troubled intersection of domestic violence and criminal justice.

Date of release
2011-07-01
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Documentary, Crime
Director
Yoav Potash

Casting

Interesting facts

Crime After Crime is a 2011 award-winning documentary film directed by Yoav Potash about the case of Deborah Peagler, an incarcerated victim of domestic violence whose case was taken up by pro bono attorneys through The California Habeas Project.

Production

Potash produced Crime After Crime over a five-and-a-half-year span, gaining unprecedented access to film in a maximum-security California prison, despite strict rules that barred members of the media from filming interviews with specific inmates.

During production, Potash filmed the music group Arrested Development as they visited Debbie Peagler in prison and sang with Peagler and the inmate gospel choir that she led. Their visit was meant to support Peagler's legal battle for her freedom, and call attention to the plight of other victims of abuse and wrongful incarceration.

The film was funded by the Sundance Documentary Film Program, the San Francisco Foundation, the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film at the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, the Bay Area Video Coalition, the Women in Film Foundation Film Finishing Fund supported by Netflix, the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, and Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco.

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