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War Crimes

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Inside the Maricopa County 4th Avenue jail in Phoenix, Arizona, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are turning up as inmates rather than patients. The film centers on Clark Fish, a 24-year-old veteran held in a 6-by-14 cell while awaiting trial for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, and follows how he keeps that cell obsessively ordered even as his mind is not. He is one of roughly 70 men in the facility charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to assault, and corrections staff and mental health experts describe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as the thread running through many of these cases. The film cites a striking historical marker: not long ago, one in five prisoners in America was a Vietnam veteran, suggesting this is a recurring aftermath of war rather than a new problem. Interviews and jailhouse footage build toward a blunt question about incarceration, mental illness, and what the country owes the people it sent to fight.