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Danny Trejo on Gun Control and Our ‘Broken’ U.S. Prison System

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‘Automatic weapons are for killing people. That’s all they’re for,’ says the actor and producer of ‘Survivor’s Guide to Prison,’ a film about the injustices of the prison system.

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“Welcome to the United States of America,” says Danny Trejo at the beginning of the documentary Survivor’s Guide to Prison. “We call this the land of the free, but this country is home to the largest prison population in the world.”

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