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Narrated by actor Danny Trejo, "Turned Out" looks beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive.

Filmmaker and investigative journalist Jonathan Schwartz went deep inside Alabama's infamous Limestone penitentiary to uncover the long-term causes and consequences of prison rape. With a startling lack of inhibition, five inmates reveal the workings of an elaborate inner society. In Limestone, sex is the gold standard, men sell their bodies for bags of coffee or chips, and makeshift families are cobbled together out of fear and cautious love.

Roughly a fifth of men serving in US prisons have been raped and looks into the prisons which allow this type of violent, sexual behavior. The documentary continues to detail how prison relationships work. It appears to be all about power and a terrifying, continuous game of who is on the top and bottom of any totem pole. The horrific stories of these men detailing their sexual assault will set you on edge. They absolutely are criminals, but they are decidedly human. There's so much emotion in all of us, the audience cannot help but be hooked within moments.

This is a fascinating, if inherently disturbing subject and video. We find the prison subculture—gangs, isolation, the bizarre barter system based around junk food—and all the myriad dynamics at play to literally be a world unto itself.

"Turned Out": Sexual Assault Behind Bars was the first documentary to capture prison life with the clarity of Full High Definition videography. Given the recent and severe prohibitions on filming inside many state prisons, it might be one of the last. Kudos to the production team on that one.

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*Cover Photo by Mark Peterson/Corbis via Getty Images

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