Just Like Anybody Else

Natalie Hatton and 2 OthersRowan Roudebush
David Rogers

Just Like Anybody Else is a documentary film that examines reentry into society after incarceration.

The documentary, Just Like Anybody Else, explores reentry into society after incarceration.  Through numerous interviews with both returning citizens and experts on this subject, Just Like Anybody Else shows firsthand the struggles and roadblocks a returning citizen - someone returning from incarceration -  encounters on their journey.  Focusing on why there is such a stigma surrounding returning citizens, Just Like Anybody Else documents firsthand the struggles of finding housing, employment, and even reconnecting with family after serving time; these men and women carry the burden of prison with them no matter where they go, even many years after having completed their sentences.

This documentary opens the public's eyes to the everyday struggles returning men and women face, as Just Like Anybody Else sheds light on daily roadblocks to meeting basic needs that many citizens take for granted. Just Like Anybody Else brings Boston communities together.  This documentary enables everyone, young and old, to recognize the fact that there are men and women returning from incarceration who have served their sentences and justice dictates that it is up to us to bring these hard working individuals, willing to work hard, be welcomed back into our society and treated them as equals, because the past is the past.