Life of Crime 2 (1998)
Shot over the course of five years, this new documentary revisits the netherworld of the streets of Newark, New Jersey and three of the subjects of Jon Alpert’s raw and disturbing ‘One Year in a Life of Crime: America Undercover’ (1989), Rob, Freddie and Deliris.
As the documentary begins, Rob and Freddie are both serving time in prison but about to be paroled, whilst Deliris is supporting her drug habit by turning tricks with motorists, leaving her two young children, Kiki and Chimo, at home alone.
Just as ‘One Year in a Life of Crime’ showed how the dead-end, drug-riddled culture of the inner city can wreck lives, ‘Life of Crime 2’ underscores the problems that arise when people with histories of crime and drug abuse are released into an environment that offers too many temptations and little incentive to change.
Originally aired on HBO.
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