Brubaker Movie Analysis

The movie Brubaker is about the way prisoners were treated back in the day especially the black prisoners by the white guards. They were not giving the same treatment as whites. They were beaten for punishment. There was no proper medical treatment for the prisoners, and they were feed very poorly. They had no rights at all until Robert Redford, the new warden, comes in undercover as a prisoner to find that all of this is going on and decides that this treatment is unfair and denies prisoner their rights and starts to make changes. With the help of some of the inmates, he starts to make the changes happen. He starts with stopping the way the blacks are punished. He teaches the inmates how to grow their own food and raise cows for their food.