“‘Raised in the System,’ the first episode of the new season of HBO’s news-magazine series “Vice,” provides an insightful look at juvenile mass incarceration in the United States, managing a tone that’s both grave and encouraging. ”

“A revelation: a thorough, sophisticated, and emotional look at juvenile incarceration, Raised in the System shines a light on the heart of an American crisis.”

“I’m working with Matt Horowitz, and we’re telling a story about what happens when a young mind goes through the incarceration system without proper guidance. We want to tell my nephew’s story in this doc, and we’ve had a lot of flack; we’re getting a lot of pushback from the Bureau of Prisons in New York, because they don’t let cameras in. Matt didn’t want to just have the cameras and interview my nephew in the visiting room, because we’ve seen that already. The life that my nephew has made, the man he’s become in there, we want to go behind the prison walls and spend a day with him, and let him walk us through his day and how he came to be the man that he is there. I’m so proud of him. We got permission to do that on June 5th, which was 20 years to the date that he was incarcerated. I’m going to show the world the man he’s become. He’s owned up to his mistake, and he’s atoned for his mistake. Most importantly, he’s given back. Even in there, I see him giving back to young men that are coming in behind him, that he mentors, and I’ve got to document that.”