Director
Eugene Jarecki
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Self - Narrator
David Simon
Self - Creator, The Wire
Shanequa Benitez
Self
William Julius Wilson
Self - Harvard University
Glendon Goldsboro
Self - Providence Police
Fabio Zuena
Self - Providence Narcotics
David Kennedy
Self - John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Michael Correia
Self - Commanding Officer, Narcotics
Charles Bowden
Self - Investigative Reporter
Gabor Maté
Self - Physician, Addiction Expert
Mark W. Bennett
Self - U.S. Federal Judge
Maurice Haltiwanger
Self - ID# 03678-029
Jim K. McGough
Self - Maurice's Lawyer
Eric Franklin
Self - Lexington Corrections Center
Mike Carpenter
Self - Chief of Security, Lexington Corrections
Michelle Alexander
Self - Author, The New Jim Crow
Charles Ogletree
Anthony Johnson
Self - ID# 06263-082
John Pacht
Self - Anthony's Lawyer
Susan Randall
Self - Private Investigator
Dennis Whidbee
Self - Anthony's Father
Alicia Alcindor
Self - Anthony's Girlfriend
Mark Mauer
Kecia Johnson
Self - Anthony's Mother
Jonathan Kaufman
Self - The Wall Street Journal
Marc Mauer
Self - The Sentencing Project
Bill Cuneen
Self - Miami Narcotics
Julius Wilson
Michael Bien
Self - Civil Rights Attorney
William Walter Wilkins
Self - Chairman, U.S. Sentencing Commission (1985-94)
Betty Chism
Self - Kevin's Mother
Bernard Kerik
Self - Former NYPD Commissioner
Larry Cearley
Self - Marshal, Village of Magdalena
Michael Correa
Carl Hart
Self - Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Elzie Hooks
Self - inmate, Lexington Correctional Center
Nannie Jeter
Self - Eugene's Childhood Nanny
Larry Kastner
Richard Lawrence Miller
Self - historian
Kevin Ott
David Steele
Self - instructor, Lexington Correctional Center
Julie Stewart
Self - President, Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Don Walker
Robert Wilson
Joe Biden
Self(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
William J. Bratton
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Rudy Giuliani
Raul Hilberg
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King
John McCain
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
Nancy Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Nelson Rockefeller
Robert Stutman
Jim Webb